Congratulations Chloe Stevenson for her Research Award from the Animal Behaviour Society!
Chloe receives ABS Student Research Award!
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Paper accepted at Animal Cognition!
Congratulations Laura Robayo and Chloe Stevenson on the publication of “Variation in plumage reflectance but not song reflects spatial cognitive performance in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus).” Part of a Collection on Cognition and Behavior in Food-Caching Birds in Animal Cognition! Great work team
Some Coverage in The New Yorker : >
Chickadees with better spatial cognition live longer lives!
Check out the Science podcast on this work featuring Drs. Joe Welklin and Vladimir Pravosudov
And Dr. Carrie Branch’s chat on CBC London Morning with Andrew Brown
Birds have accents too!
Check out Dr. Carrie Branch’s chat with Matt Allen from CBC Afternoon Drive on bird accents
Branch Lab does ABS 2024
What a great time we had at this year’s Animal Behaviour Society meeting in our very own London, ON!
Welcome Alex Muth to the Branch Lab!
Alex is joining the Branch Lab from Uni of Alberta. Alex will be investigating geographic variation in chickadee vocalizations for his MSc in Psychology! We’re excited to have you!
Congratulations to Laura for AOS student research grant!
Laura Robayo received a Student Research Award from the AOS (Spring 2024) to complete her MSc work on cognition and secondary sexual traits in black-capped chickadees! Wahoo 🥳
Honours students rock their final projects!
Cheers to Michelle and Cheris presenting their honours thesis projects!
Welcome Chloe Stevenson!
Chloe Stevenson joined the Branch Lab in January 2024 to complete her MSc in Biology at Western. We’re excited to welcome you to the Branch Lab!
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