All Stories

  1. The benefits of pair bond tenure in the cooperatively breeding pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor )

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2018, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  2. Sex differences in the drivers of reproductive skew in a cooperative breeder

    Article • Molecular Ecology, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  3. Vocal Cues to Identity: Pied Babblers Produce Individually Distinct But Not Stable Loud Calls

    Article • Ethology, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY, Dr David Humphries

  4. Social foraging strategies and acquisition of novel foraging skills in cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  5. Deception by Flexible Alarm Mimicry in an African Bird

    Article • Science, May 2014, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  6. The influence of siblings on begging behaviour

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  7. The benefits of eavesdropping behaviour

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  8. Is sentinel behaviour safe? An experimental investigation

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  9. Investigating a link between bill morphology, foraging ecology and kleptoparasitic behaviour in the fork-tailed drongo

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  10. The ecological economics of kleptoparasitism: pay‐offs from self‐foraging versus kleptoparasitism

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2012, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  11. The costs of keeping cool in a warming world: implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid‐zone bird

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  12. Inbreeding avoidance mechanisms: dispersal dynamics in cooperatively breeding southern pied babblers

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, April 2012, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  13. Re-assessment of the conservation status of Malawi’s ‘Endangered’ Yellow-throated Apalis Apalis flavigularis

    Article • Bird Conservation International, December 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  14. The effect of Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus parasitism on the body mass and survival of young in a new host species

    Article • Ibis, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  15. Calling by Concluding Sentinels: Coordinating Cooperation or Revealing Risk?

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2011, PLOS

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  16. Invading together: the benefits of coalition dispersal in a cooperative bird

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  17. Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  18. SINGING FOR YOUR SUPPER: SENTINEL CALLING BY KLEPTOPARASITES CAN MITIGATE THE COST TO VICTIMS

    Article • Evolution, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  19. Routes to breeding in cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  20. Synchronous provisioning increases brood survival in cooperatively breeding pied babblers

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2009, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  21. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees

    Article • Ostrich, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  22. The cost of being alone: the fate of floaters in a population of cooperatively breeding pied babblers Turdoides bicolor

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, July 2008, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  23. Juvenile Female Aggression in Cooperatively Breeding Pied Babblers: Causes and Contexts

    Article • Ethology, April 2008, Wiley

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  24. Close calling regulates spacing between foraging competitors in the group-living pied babbler

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  25. Experimental evidence for teaching in wild pied babblers

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  26. Adult vocalizations during provisioning: offspring response and postfledging benefits in wild pied babblers

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  27. Individuals in foraging groups may use vocal cues when assessing their need for anti-predator vigilance

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY

  28. Recruitment Calling: A Novel Form of Extended Parental Care in an Altricial Species

    Article • Current Biology, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr AMANDA R RIDLEY