Prof Susan Healy

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2065

Email

sdh11@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Laura Douglas
• Jeanne Godard
• Daniel Marsh
• Beth Mullier
• Megan Worsley

Selected publications

• Open access

  Anthropocentric bias may explain research disparities between animal tool use and nest building

  Street, S. E., Hamilton, I. & Healy, S. D., 1 Aug 2025, In: Animal Behaviour. 226, 123240.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Applying movement ecology models to comparative cognition experiments: a field test in hummingbirds

  Pritchard, D. J., Hurly, T. A., Photopoulou, T. & Healy, S. D., Jul 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2051, p. 1-12 12 p., 20250717.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Causes and consequences of material variation in avian nest building

  Sugasawa, S., Hansell, M., Reilly, M. & Healy, S. D., 1 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Avian Biology. 2025, 2, 9 p., e03438.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Demonstrating the reproductive consequences of cognition: learning from experience

  Healy, S. D., 26 Jun 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 380, 1929, p. 1-10 10 p., 20240115.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Dynamic strategic social learning in nest-building zebra finches and its generalizability

  Breen, A. J., Eckersley, T., Camacho-Alpízar, A., Lambert, C. T., Balasubramanian, G., Healy, S. D., McElreath, R. & Guillette, L. M., 17 Dec 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2061, 20251508.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Nest building and circulating testosterone dynamics in male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

  Hébert, M., Ihalainen, E., Edwards, S. C., Meddle, S. L. & Healy, S. D., Jun 2025, In: General and Comparative Endocrinology. 369, p. 1-7 7 p., 114753.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Previous reproductive success informs nest-building decisions

  Alexander, E. J., Edwards, S. C., Chapman, E. G. & Healy, S. D., 1 Mar 2025, In: Behavioral Ecology. 36, 2, 10 p., araf009.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Anthropogenic nest material use in a global sample of birds

  Sheard, C., Stott, L., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Sugasawa, S. & Lala, K. N., 25 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Animal Ecology. Early View, 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds

  Tello-Ramos, M. C., Harper, L., Tortora-Brayda, I., Guillette, L. M., Capilla-Lasheras, P., Harrison, X. A., Young, A. J. & Healy, S. D., 30 Aug 2024, In: Science. 385, 6712, p. 1004-1009 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics

  Hauber, M. E., Nagy, J., Sheard, C., Antonson, N. D., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Lala, K. N. & Mainwaring, M. C., 10 Jan 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2014, 20231734.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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