December 2023 Southern Africa trip
Our most recent expedition to the field was at the end of the Fall 2023 semester, with participants Sifiso Lukhele, Stacey de Souza,...
Ethiopia revisited on contact zones project!
Sifiso Lukhele and I spent 22 days in Ethiopia from 21st June 2023 on the contact zones Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) project....
Project Song Gene Update, Southern Africa Sep 2022 - Jan 2023!
Matteo Sebastianelli and I, along with six other members of the Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Lab - Simona Secomandi, Sam Jones,...
Project Song Gene update!
In July 2022, Simona Secomandi and I headed to the USA for a few weeks to join one of the leading groups in the field of evolutionary...
Project Contact Zones update!
Sifiso and I began our 45-day journey across Eastern Africa on April 15th 2022. The trip formed part of the Contact Zones project funded...
The cultural heritage of the birds of Cyprus
The island of Cyprus emerged from the Mediterranean Sea some 15 million years ago. Gradually the island became vegetated and inhabited by...
Leveraging ancestry to investigate the genomics of song and colour in birds
Biodiversity abounds with a myriad of forms, colours and behaviours. We are now in the genomic age when scientists can investigate the...
Continent-wide genomics of hybridisation and speciation
Variation among populations evolves over time and can affect the ability and likelihood of diverging populations from interbreeding. At...
Breeding success, migration and wintering in Eleonora's Falcon
Thomas Hadjikyriakou, during his PhD studies, has investigated the reproductive success of Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae) in Cyprus,...
Species interactions in Pogoniulus tinkerbirds
Tinkerbirds are small barbets found in Sub-Saharan Africa. They produce simple songs typically consisting of a single tone repeated...