Jennifer Morinay

Colour-ringed long-tailed tit

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

Ecological and demographic drivers of kin‐directed cooperation in a social bird: Insights from a long‐term study We review 30 years of studies on the drivers of kin structure and cooperative behaviour in an atypical cooperative breeder, the long-tailed tits. These numerous studies have nurtured and developed ke...

Thanks ! Link to the full article 👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

For long-tailed tits, it really does take a village The evolutionary reason so many birds help raise other parents’ chicks.

🚨New review on cooperation 🚨 in Long-tailed tits🕊️

We review over 30 years of research on the drivers of helping in this facultative cooperative breeder:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🥳Check out our new post about it here: theconversation.com/for-long-tai...