My research interests include social learning, mate choice and sexual selection. I am interested in the expression and evolution of female reproductive behaviour in birds. In my current research I study the influence of androgens on female social behaviour and reproduction. I also study how maternal effects, mediated through deposition of egg steroids, are optimised in response to environmental conditions. My research in the field of comparative animal physiology, behavior and management focuses on the thermal environment and animal thermoregulatory responses to diverse and dynamic environments.
Current study includes investigation of the ontogeny and plasticity of thermoregulation.
Other areas of research interest include comparative cardiovascular and respiratory physiology. I am interested in acoustic communication and sexual selection. Results indicate that females A. grisella choose mates based on three signal characters that are both repeatable and heritable. Playback experiments indicated that some females consistently chose one stimulus over the other, demonstrating repeatable variation in female preference within the population.