Cambridge and Helsinki
Thorogood completed her zoology doctorate at Cambridge in 2010 and held a Cambridge research fellowship from 2013 to 2018. She subsequently led the Informed Birds group in Helsinki, combining behavioural ecology and population-genomic approaches to individual and population-level questions.
Information in coevolution
Her research examines how learning from experience and from other individuals changes species interactions. Topics include defences against brood-parasitic cuckoos and how predators acquire information about prey, connecting behaviour with reciprocal evolutionary pressures.
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Host defences during range expansion
The group uses expanding reed-warbler populations to investigate social information and behavioural plasticity. Questions include geographic variation in assessment of cuckoo risk and how parents use information from members of their own or other species when adjusting defensive behaviour.
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Long-term bird conservation
Thorogood has worked with New Zealand hihi since 2002. Her long-term project investigates whether social relationships and social resilience can improve conservation outcomes, linking questions about information and behaviour with the management of a threatened bird.
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