B. C. Sheldon

Age-specificity in territory quality and spatial structure in a wild bird population

The paper examines spatial age structure in a wild bird population and finds little spatial age structure compared to territory quality and reproductive structure.

Environmental similarity between relatives reduces heritability of reproductive timing in wild great tits

The paper shows that environmental similarity between relatives reduces heritability estimates of reproductive timing in great tits by accounting for shared environments.

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song: a multilevel study

This study investigates how demographic factors influence cultural evolution in bird song using a multi-generational dataset of Great Tits.

A densely sampled and richly annotated acoustic dataset from a wild bird population

The paper presents a large acoustic dataset of wild Great Tits and discusses its potential applications in studying bird vocal behavior.

Social learning mechanisms shape transmission pathways through replicate local social networks of wild birds

The paper simulates how different social learning mechanisms affect the spread of behaviors in wild bird networks, showing that social connectivity influences acquisition order depending on the learning rule.

Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less responsive to climatic variation

The paper shows that bird populations most exposed to climate change show less phenological response to temperature variation.

Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds - no evidence for social transmission of patch quality

This study investigates whether songbirds use social information about food patch profitability, finding no evidence for social transmission of patch quality.

Wild songbirds exhibit consistent individual differences in inter-specific social behaviour

The paper examines individual differences in heterospecific social behavior in wild songbirds and finds consistent variation in social strategies across species.

Stable multi-level social structure is maintained by habitat geometry in a wild bird population

The paper shows that habitat geometry maintains stable social structure in a wild bird population despite high generational turnover.

Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations

This study develops a model integrating movement and conformist social learning to show their combined impact on the spread of behavioural traditions in animal populations.