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Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
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Parental Behaviour in Nuthatches
This ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) resource pack focuses on parental behaviour in nuthatches, in particular the parent-chick interactions during feeding.
The resource provides a summary of the key events in the rearing of a nuthatch brood and a film of parent-chick interactions during feeding to provide an opportunity for students to collect data directly from the footage, add it to other data already obtained and use it in analysis;
The background notes on the bird provide details of its breeding biology, three interactive exercises for data analysis and a set of additional, differentiated, exercises related to aspects of nuthatch behaviour and based on secondary source material (for Key Stage Three to Advanced Higher students.
This resource was provided by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB).
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