Publications 

23. Branch, C. L., Welklin, J. F., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Pitera, A. M., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). What’s in a mate? Social pairing decisions and spatial cognitive ability in food-caching mountain chickadees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2006), 20231073. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1073

22. Heinen, V. K., Pitera, A. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Branch, C. L., Benedict, L. M., Welklin, J. F., Whitenack, L. E., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2002), 20230900. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0900

21. Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Welklin, J. F., Sonnenberg, B. R., Whitenack, L. E., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Food-caching mountain chickadees can learn abstract rules to solve a complex spatial-temporal pattern. Current Biology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.036

20. Whitenack, L. E., Welklin, J. F., Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Pitera, A. M., Kozlovsky, D. Y., Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Complex relationships between climate and reproduction in a resident montane bird. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), 230554. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230554

19. Welklin, J. F., Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Kozlovsky, D. Y., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird. Animal Behaviour, 199, 35–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.02.012

18. Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Sonnenberg, B. R., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird. Animal Behaviour, 196, 55–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.11.005

17. Sonnenberg, B. R., Welklin, J. F., Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Kozlovsky, D. Y., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2023). Long-term winter food supplementation shows no significant impact on reproductive performance in Mountain Chickadees in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Ornithology, 140(1), ukac051. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac051

16. Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., Sonnenberg, B. R., Pitera, A. M., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2022). Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03275-6

15. Heinen, V. K., Benedict, L. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Bridge, E. S., Farine, D. R., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2022). Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird. Animal Behaviour, 193, 1–12.

14. Sonnenberg, B. R., Heinen, V. K., Pitera, A. M., Benedict, L. M., Branch, C. L., Bridge, E. S., Ouyang, J. Q., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2022). Natural variation in developmental condition has limited effect on spatial cognition in a wild food-caching bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1984), 20221169. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1169

13. Branch, C. L., Semenov, G. A., Wagner, D. N., Sonnenberg, B. R., Pitera, A. M., Bridge, E. S., Taylor, S. A., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2022). The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird. Current Biology, 32(1), 210–219.

12. Sonnenberg, B. R., Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Benedict, L. M., Heinen, V. K., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2022). Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03114-0

11. Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Heinen, V. K., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird. Animal Behaviour, 182, 153–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.10.009

10. Heinen, V. K., Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Social dominance has limited effects on spatial cognition in a wild food-caching bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1963), 20211784. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1784

9. Pitera, A. M., Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., Kozlovsky, D. Y., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(7), 101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03042-z

8. Heinen, V. K., Pitera, A. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., Bridge, E. S., Farine, D. R., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Food discovery is associated with different reliance on social learning and lower cognitive flexibility across environments in a food-caching bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1951), 20202843. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2843

7. Heinen, V. K., Pitera, A. M., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., Branch, C. L., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Specialized spatial cognition is associated with reduced cognitive senescence in a food-caching bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1947), 20203180. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3180

6. Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Pitera, A. M., Benedict, L. M., Kozlovsky, D. Y., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2020). Testing the greater male variability phenomenon: Male mountain chickadees exhibit larger variation in reversal learning performance compared with females. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1931), 20200895. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0895

5. Sonnenberg, B. R., Branch, C. L., Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2020). Nest construction, ambient temperature and reproductive success in a cavity-nesting bird. Animal Behaviour, 165, 43–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.04.011

4. Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., Branch, C. L., Kozlovsky, D. Y., Sonnenberg, B. R., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2020). Elevation-related differences in annual survival of adult food-caching mountain chickadees are consistent with natural selection on spatial cognition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-2817-2

3. Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Kozlovsky, D. Y., Sonnenberg, B. R., Benedict, L. M., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2019). Elevation-related differences in the age structure of breeding birds suggest stronger selection at harsher elevations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(10), 143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2750-4

2. Bridge, E. S., Wilhelm, J., Pandit, M. M., Moreno, A., Curry, C. M., Pearson, T. D., Proppe, D. S., Holwerda, C., Eadie, J. M., Stair, T. F., Olson, A. C., Lyon, B. E., Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Kozlovsky, D., Sonnenberg, B. R., Pravosudov, V. V., & Ruyle, J. E. (2019). An Arduino-Based RFID Platform for Animal Research. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00257

1. Sonnenberg, B. R., Branch, C. L., Pitera, A. M., Bridge, E., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2019). Natural Selection and Spatial Cognition in Wild Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees. Current Biology, 29(4), 670-676.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.006