David Pritchard

Biography

David Pritchard is a Postdoctoral researcher in Sue Healy’s lab at the University of St Andrews. He is currently working on small-scale navigation in Rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus). To forage effectively, these little birds remember individual flowers within the territory. The hummingbirds do not remember flowers in terms of their physical appearance, but instead remember the spatial location of a flower within the territory. Very little is known about how the hummingbirds remember the spatial location of a flower, the cues they use, and how this relates to navigation in other animals.

Research Interest

Interested in what animals in the wild learn about their environment, and how they use this information to find their way around.