Wageningen UR BSc and MSc Project Database

BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Vigilance in geese flocks along the Rhine
One benefit of group living is safety and reduced predation pressure risk. Group living animals often show vigilance behaviour, by scanning the environment, and such vigilance is traded off with other activities such as foraging. ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib and Lysanne Snijders
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Habitat quality and reproductive performance in cooperatively breeding African birds
The savannahs and woodlands of eSwatini can be rather challenging for survival and reproduction of birds: Temperatures can be very high, rainfall scarce or lacking for months, and bush fires can destroy great parts of the vegetati ...
Supervisor:
Sjouke A. Kingma
Kat L. Bebbington

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Inferring dominance interactions from automated feeder data
An individual’s position in a dominance hierarchy may influence their ability to gain access to food resources, territories and potential mates. Therefore, an individuals’ dominance rank can have an important influence on their fi ...
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Kees van Oers (NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Field projects: The role of habitat quality for bird personality and cognition
How may habitat variation influence behavioural performance in wild birds and its fitness consequences? Individuals differ in how they acquire and use knowledge. This often leads to a non-random distribution of behavioural typ ...
Supervisor: Kees van Oers (WUR/NIOO)
Eva Serrano (NIOO-KNAW)
Xinrui Wang (NIOO/WUR)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Bee health in Sweden: Investigating behavioural defence strategies in mite resitant honey bees from the island of Gotland in Sweden.
Healthy bees are crucial for the global food production. About one third of human diet directly or indirectly depends on successful pollination by bees. But the western honey bee struggles to survive. Colony numbers are rapidly de ...
Supervisor: Séverine Kotrschal

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Conservation Behaviour: Wetland bird behaviour and community structure along the Nile in Egypt
The wetlands along the Nile provide a prime case to study human-wildlife conflicts and human settlements and bird habitats are confined to the small linear habitat along the Nile. The thesis will be embedded in large interdiscipli ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib & Fred de Boer (WEC)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal Cooperation: Why do birds help each other?
In some birds species individuals forego own reproduction in order to help others in raising their offspring. Since evolutionary theory predicts selfish behaviour, how can we explain such seemingly selfless behaviour? We catch and ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma
Kat Bebbington
Miriam Kuspiel

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Do helpers-at-the-nest reduce the chance of cuckoo parasitism?
One commonly proposed benefit of group living of birds is that individuals in groups are better to prevent cuckoos laying an egg in their nest. However, direct study and evidence of this hypothesis is rare. In Eswatini, we study a ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Functional Diversity of Birds in the Neotropical Region
BSc and/or MSc thesis. In this project, we will use citizen science data (and potential fieldwork) to investigate aspects of the functional diversity of birds in the Neotropics. The scope of the project will be defined togethe ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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