Two of our team currently undertaking MSc research on interactions between African Cuckoos and their Fork-tailed Drongo hosts in Zambia have just been awarded PhD studentships to carry out their PhDs at the University of Cambridge – congratulations Mairenn Attwood and Jess Lund! And huge thanks to NERC for Mairenn’s DTP C-CLEAR studentship, and to the Department of Zoology, Cambridge, for Jess’s John Stanley Gardiner studentship.
Chima Nwaogu presents research lecture at Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr Chima Nwaogu visited the Animal Ecology Unit at the Evolutionsbiologisk centrum (EBC) at Uppsala University, Sweden, to present the 2025 Christer Hemborg lecture. He gave a research lecture on why Afrotropical birds breed when they do, based on analyses of breeding records derived from Major John Colebrook-Robjent’s egg collection currently held at the Livingstone Museum. He explored how the effects of pre-rain tree green-up and rainfall onset differentially drive invertebrate and grass seed abundance, influencing multiple seasonal bird breeding patterns throughout the year.