“Animal Architecture” by ACRG PhD student Andrés Camacho
2024
Coverage of weaver bird nest building paper published in Science, reported in 71 news outlets word wide highlights include:
- Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-bird-nests-show-signs-of-an-architectural-culture/
- The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/avian-architects-weaver-birds-in-africa-have-unique-building-styles-240950
- The Washington Post, https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5090967/birds-build-nests-tradition-culture-architecture
- National Public Radio, https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5090967/birds-build-nests-tradition-culture-architecture
- The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/climate/weaver-bird-nests-kalahari-desert.html
- Popular Science, https://www.popsci.com/environment/bird-culture/
Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, News: https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/2024/july/animal-psychology-style.html
CBC video: Who teaches birds how to build nests? (3 min video) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2306012227849
CBC radio, Edmonton AM live: Can birds have their own sense of style? (8 min audio): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-17-edmonton-am/clip/16039455-can-birds-sense-style
2023
The Conversation: Birds’ nests express their unique style and past experiences. https://theconversation.com/birds-nests-express-their-unique-style-and-past-experiences-216799?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
2022
Faculty of Science News: Study finds no link between birds’ nest-building experience and learning new skills. https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/2022/january/nest-building-cognition.html
2021
Videos from our laboratory featured on BBC programme Animal Einsteins episode 03 Builders
University of Alberta Folio https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/02/zebra-finches-choose-nest-materials-based-on-past-experience-new-research-shows.html
Phys.org https://phys.org/news/2021-02-zebra-finches-materials-based.html
EurekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uoa-zfc022521.php
Arabica Post https://arabicapost.net/new-research-shows-that-zebra-finches-choose-nest-materials-based-on-past-experience/
Agenparl (Massachusetts, USA) https://agenparl.eu/zebra-finches-choose-nest-materials-based-on-past-experience-new-research-shows/
Florida News Times (USA): https://floridanewstimes.com/zebra-finch-chooses-nest-materials-based-on-past-experience-new-research-shows/152457/
St. Albert Today (Canada): https://www.stalberttoday.ca/local-news/birds-stick-with-what-works-when-nest-building-3462066
Earth.com https://www.earth.com/news/zebra-finches-build-nests-based-on-past-successes-and-failures/
4StateNews: https://4state.news/zebra-finches-choose-nest-materials-based-on-past-experience-new-research-shows/
Contours Vol. 38 https://issuu.com/science.publications/docs/science-contours-summer-2021
MicroNews.ca https://westcentralcrossroads.ca/science/how-do-zebra-finches-learn-to-build-their-nests/
2020
The University of St Andrews https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/nest-building-style-reflects-birds-early-experience/
PHYS ORG https://phys.org/news/2020-05-nest-building-style-birds-early.html
Mirage News https://www.miragenews.com/nest-building-style-reflects-birds-early-experience/
MailOnline (UK) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8277507/Birds-pick-colour-style-parents-just-like-humans.html
University of Alberta (Canada) https://www.ualberta.ca/science/news/2020/may/birds-nest-construction.html
Amed post: https://amedpost.com/birds-pick-up-colour-and-style-from-their-parents-just-like-humans/
The Herald (Scotland): http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18422274.baby-birds-pick-nesting-tips-parents/
Ethologisch (German): https://ethologisch.de/erfahrungen-beeinflussen-vorlieben-beim-nestbau/
Canadian Geographic: https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/study-shows-birds-build-nests-based-experiences-adolescence-not-birth
EurekaAlert! AAAS: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/uoa-eed051220.php
ScienceDaily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512134526.htm
2016
The Scotsmanhttp://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/birds-watch-friends-for-lessons-in-nest-building-1-4079736
The University of St Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2016/title,438501,en.php
Cage & Aviary Birds Issue 5902, April 20 2016
Interviewed for:
BBC Scotland Newsdrive Nightly new program
Wave 102 Local radio station, Dundee, UK
Below are some links to media coverage of some of the work I took part in while I was a PhD student in the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory
“The Amazing Chickadee” St. Albert Gazette – January 2013
“Chickadees, pigeons and humans show similar patterns of chord perception”, American Psychological Association, In Brief: Snapshots of some of the latest peer-reviewed research within psychology and related fields, December 2011, Volume 42 (11), http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/12/inbrief.aspx
“A break from the flock” – Express News at the University of Alberta and Folio, Volume 48(3), October 2010, http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=8E569A69AD4344919F77BC588CD68D08, http://www.folio.ualberta.ca/issue.cfm?i=100742
“Birds of a feather’ may need rewriting” – Physorg.com, September 2010, http://phys.org/news204883901.html
“Chickadees tweet about themselves” – Physorg.com, April 2010, http://phys.org/news191682972.html
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