Prof Susan Healy
Professor
PhD supervision
- Laura Douglas
- Jeanne Godard
- Daniel Marsh
- Beth Mullier
- Megan Worsley
Selected publications
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Open access
The role of personal reproductive experience on nest building in a wild bird
Chapman, E. G., Edwards, S. C., Alexander, E. J. & Healy, S. D., Jul 2026, In: Behavioral Ecology. 37, 4, p. 1-10 10 p., arag049.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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