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Cooperation, dispersal, and climate adaptation in Australian fairy-wrens
MSc thesis projects are available to study purple-crowned fairy-wrens in the Kimberley, Australia. Project topics can include cooperative breeding, dispersal, parental care, brood parasitism, and climate change, but are not limite ...
Supervisor: Niki Teunissen
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Field work: The role of birds for managing Oak Processionary Caterpillars (eikenprocessierups)
Oak processionary caterpillars (Thaumetopoea processionea ; OPC) have increased in abundance greatly over the last decade. They are seen as a pest, because of their venomous hairs, which can cause skin irritation in humans. Over t ...
Supervisor: Prof. Kees van Oers (NIOO-KNAW/WUR)
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Animal Personality
Animal personality; a topic that has received much attention over the last 3 decades. Within this field many field, lab, data or literature studies are possible. Studies ranging from field studies, genetics and genomics studies, ...
Supervisor: Kees van Oers or other staff at BHE
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Investigating Referential Alarm calls (fieldwork in Brazil)
MSc students. The fieldwork takes place between December and April in Florestal/Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. In this project, you will investigate if the Lined Seedeater has referential alarm calls. In the fieldwork ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
(Fieldwork) Environmental constraints in nest parasitism
Fieldwork from August to November in Florestal/Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. In this project, you will study the nest parasitism behaviour of the Shiny cowbird. We want to better understand how the environmental aspects o ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
(fieldwork) Territorial males adjust their songs according to intruders’ song complexity
The fieldwork takes place between December and April in Florestal/Minas Gerais, Brazil. In this project, we want to understand if territorial male birds can adjust their song according to the 'level of expertise' of their intru ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Kazakhstan Bactrianus house sparrow
Specifically, myself and my PhD student (Ruth Fawthrop) are looking for a motivated Master student to join us in Kazakhstan to work with the Bactrianus house sparrow. Details of the project are available here: https://nioo.kna ...
Supervisor: Rowe, Melissah <M.Rowe@nioo.knaw.nl>
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Animal Communication and Conservation: Effect of urban disturbances on bird singing
Human disturbances affect the natural environment both acoustically and visually. Traffic noise and street lights are two of the most prominent environmental pollutants which affecting diurnal activity patterns of wildlife. Birds  ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib (BHE)
Pim van Hooft (WEC)
Sjouke Kingma (BHE)

Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Eco-accoustics for nature-positive food production
While ecological farming aims for sustainable production with the least impact on the environment, a natural consequence of that is the presence of pests. A lack of biodiversity in the natural prey of the pests leads to significan ...
Supervisor: Cunha, Filipe
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Parallel evolution in brain anatomy: do sympatric species evolve together in response to predation?
Animals need cognitive abilities to estimate predation risk and adjust behaviour accordingly. As cognition is governed by brain anatomy, predation pressure is likely linked to brain evolution. Despite a number of studies now hav ...
Supervisor: Catarina Vila Pouca
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
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