The Vulturine Guineafowl Project
Linking Collective Behaviour to Ecology
Established in 2016, the Vulturine Guineafowl Project aims to understand the interplay between collective behaviour and the environment. The project is currently (2020-2024) funded by an ERC Starting Grant ECOLBEH.
Approaches
Approaches
We combine daily visual observations of group membership and social interactions
with large-scale deployment of high-resolution GPS tags across all groups
to gain a data spanning from individual to group to population over time
Figure 1 from Papageorgiou et al. 2019 Current Biology
all while studying the birds in a rich ecosystem containing a full suite of heterospecifics and predators.
