Media
2025
“Birds, Sex & Beauty” by Matt Ridley, Harper
“The Well-Connected Animal” by Lee Alan Dugatkin, University of Chicago Press
2024
Competition in birds… Living Bird magazine
Hummingbird flight control… Scientific American
On the wings of war… New York Times
2023
Social species are featherweights… Audubon magazine, Birdwatching Daily, Calgary QR 107.3 Radio
Bird collisions… British Ornithologists’ Union
2022
Peacock behaviour… Audubon magazine
“An Immense World” by Ed Yong, Knopf
“The Sounds of Life” by Karen Bakker, Princeton University Press
2021
Peacock behaviour… in the book “Why Peacocks?” by Sean Flynn, Simon & Schuster
Weighted restraint… project with Campbell and Adler of Carleton Engineering New York Times
2020
Hummingbird flight… National Geographic Spain
#ScientistFridays Discover Canada… Yuchao Wang talks about our research on peacock colour
Social network stability… The Ottawa Citizen, The Charlatan
CJBQ Newsmaker Sunday (radio, February 16)
Peacock behaviour… Joivert.com
2019
Birdnote (US public radio and Audubon)
CKCU Radio 93.1 (May 28)
CBC Radio’s Fresh Air (May 19)
BBC’s 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter (radio, September 2019)
2018
The peafowl’s crest feathers are tuned to social displays… Science, New Scientist, Daily Mail, The Atlantic, Scientific American 60-Second Science
Maneuvering ability in hummingbirds… Science, Science News, Seeker, Daily Mail, BBC, CBC
BBC/PBS Natural Born Rebels, research in Episode 3 “The Mating Game”
Peacocks accused of fowl play… Vancouver Weekly
2017
Unlocking the secrets behind the hummingbird’s frenzy, National Geographic story and photo series
2016
Visual guidance of forward flight in hummingbirds… Gizmodo, Christian Science Monitor, Vancouver Sun, BBC Radio, City TV
Biomechanics of the peacock’s display… New York Times/Science Take, Quirks and Quarks, Science News, Christian Science Monitor, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Nature Research Highlights, Scientific American, Discover, Tech Times, PBS Newshour
2014
Deceptive copulation calls… Quirks and Quarks, BBC Nature News, Science News, National Geographic, NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (March 22)
CBC’s The Nature of Things “Decoding Desire”, TV documentary
2013 and earlier
Eye for an eyespot: how iridescent ocelli influence peacock mating success… Slate, Science News
Peahens prefer peacocks displaying more eyespots… Nature, Wired, Science News