Anders Brodin is professor in ecology at Lund University in Sweden. He has studied cognition in parids for more than 40 years, having been first intrigued by an article in Scientific American in 1983 about food hoarding and memory in them. He is systematically collecting observations from the public of interesting or unusual behavior by foraging birds. Please submit them here.
Great Tits Show How Animals Can Thrive in Cities
One of Europe’s most common birds, the Great Tit, shows an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem to be no limits for this species when it comes to inventing new ways of acquiring food from people