Youtube – includes research and teaching videos
2022
Peacock behaviour… Audubon magazine
2021
Peacock behaviour… research featured in the book “Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird” Sean Flynn, Simon & Schuster
Weighted restraint… New York Times
2020
Hummingbird flight… National Geographic Spain (forthcoming)
#ScientistFridays Discover Canada… Yuchao Wang talks about our research on peacock colours
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 series Natural Born Rebels, research featured in Episode 3 “The Mating Game” (streaming available in the US)
Peacocks accused of fowl play… Vancouver Weekly
2017
Unlocking the secrets behind the hummingbird’s frenzy, our research contributed to a National Geographic feature story and photography 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!
CBC’s The Nature of Things episode “Decoding Desire”, research featured in 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