Professor Tim Guilford
Emeritus Fellow
Teaching
Animal Behaviour, and Evolution. I teach on the BA Biology course, and the MSc in Integrative Bioscience.
Research
My main current research interest is in the mechanisms of spatial cognition in animals: how they orient, how they migrate, and how they map their environment. Using homing pigeons as a model system my group has used miniature on-board GPS tracking devices to follow the tracks of free-ranging birds in exquisite detail, relating their navigational decisions to features of the underlying landscape. Recently I have developed similar techniques for studying the extraordinary ocean wandering lifestyles of procellariform seabirds (petrels and shearwaters) that breed both around European shores and those of the southern oceans.
