A few follow-up photos of our odd depigmented male Mountain chickadee. The loss of pigment was asymmetrical as you can easily see in the tail. #ornithology #chickadee #fieldwork

Great work @s_m_aguillon! The potential interactions between mechanisms of melanin and carotenoid pigmentation are really fascinating.

Presentation uploaded! Come hear about chickadees and their nest parasites in Ecological effects 3! #abs2020 and I'd love to see you at the Q&A on July 30 @ 4pm ET US! Animal Behavior Society

#abs2020 Let's do this! Come find out how social learning differs between mountain chickadees at high and low elevations! And join me for the Social Behavior 2 Q&A on Wednesday, July 29, 11 AM ET!

Chickadees have a secret...but DNA won’t let em keep it! Would love to see you virtually at the Live Q&A on Tuesday July 28 @ 11 EST

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Check out our new paper in Current Biology! We show there’s a genetic basis of spatial cognitive abilities in those very clever mountain chickadees! A true collaboration with ⁦Vladimir Pravosudov⁩ ⁦@Dr_Scott_Taylor⁩ cell.com/current-biolog…

Chickadees update information about previously discovered food sources based on their spatial cognition, environmental conditions, age and experience. New paper by @LM_Benedict with Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) Carrie Branch Angela Pitera Virginia Heinen and Eli Bridge sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Extremely excited to be starting my very own lab this fall! I will be recruiting highly motivated and curious graduate students to start fall 2023! #animalbehavior #animalcognition #animalcommunication #chickadees

Traveling Costa Rica with an #ABS2022 star-studded crew, including Outstanding Young Investigator awardee @KateLaskowski and Allee best presentation awardee @shailee_shah93. 🤩🌋

"Waking up the next morning and finding that food store is the difference between life and death for these birds." #WesternU professor involved in a decade-long study found backyard feeders may help chickadees survive. @BirdsWesternU Psychology @ Western  news.westernu.ca/2023/03/wester…

New Chickadee paper! Over a lifetime of studying chickadees and tits (family Paridae) Vladimir Pravosudov noticed that females are often smaller than males within breeding pairs, even though male-female size distributions usually overlap.

Now published in Animal Behavior Society, we set out to test whether this anecdotal observation was real and whether it was driven by mate choice or environmental effects.

Link for the paper, please DM if you need a pdf. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Coauthors include: Carrie Branch, Angela Pitera, Ben Sonnenberg (he/him), @LM_Benedict, Virginia Heinen, D K, Vladimir Pravosudov

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