We quantified cache spacing patterns, cache retrieval rates and rates of cache theft in New
Zealand robins, Petroica australis. In a field experiment we presented wild birds with a …

Highlights•Toutouwai are repeatable in numerous aspects of food-storing
behaviour.•Different measures of caching behaviour consistently correlate with one …

Songbirds (Oscines) possess specialized brain regions responsible for the learning and
production of their elaborate vocalizations. It has previously been suggested that song may …

Both cooperation and conflict between the sexes are commonplace in monogamous mating
systems. However, little is known about how cooperation and competition varies seasonally …

Many bird species cache food items for later retrieval, a behaviour requiring spatial memory
to accomplish. Several studies have now linked individual performance on a spatial memory …

The post-fledging period is an important, but understudied, stage of avian development. This
is despite the fact that the parental care and behavioural development of young observed …

Observational spatial memory is employed by members of food-hoarding species to pilfer
caches created by other individuals more effectively. North Island robins (Petroica australis) …

179 dropped mealworms onto the ground~ 1 m away from myself. The male readily
approached and ate them on the ground. A juvenile robin then arrived and perched on a …