Alex Thornton

Social relationships promote access to food and information in wild jackdaws

This study shows that social relationships in wild jackdaws influence foraging decisions and outcomes, with both benefits and costs associated with maintaining close bonds.

The BEAC, an epigenetic clock for birds

The paper develops BEAC, an epigenetic clock for birds, validated across multiple species and showing strong predictive performance for chronological age.

Wild jackdaws learn to tolerate juveniles to exploit new information

The paper shows wild jackdaws learn to tolerate juveniles to access food through a novel social information problem.

Anthropogenic noise affects vocalisation properties of the territorial song of Western Australian magpies

This study examines how female Western Australian magpies adjust their territorial song in response to anthropogenic noise, finding changes in rate and peak frequency but not amplitude or duration.