Professor Richard Holland

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Contact info

Room: 531 Brambell

Email: r.holland@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 382344

Web: Bangor Animal Navigation Group  Google Scholar Researchgate

 

My research and teaching interests fall broadly in the area of animal behaviour and sensory biology. I am the course co-ordinator for the Zoology with Animal Behaviour degree (C3D3) and teach on several animal behaviour focused modules, as well as ornithology. My research questions focus the cognitive processes and sensory mechanisms by which animals navigate and migrate. While my principle focus is at the level of the whole organism I also incorporate aspects of neurobiology, molecular biology, and physics to identify the  environmental cues, sensory pathways and mechanisms used by animals to decide how, when and where to move. My work also operates in a comparative framework as I compare and contrast across species, taxa, age class, spatial scale and sensory mechanisms to reveal how natural selection has acted to shape navigation behaviour in different animal groups. New avenues my lab is exploring include the impact of artificial light and electromagnetic noise on navigation and spatial cognition, and the impact of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on bird behaviour.

Biography:

2021-2024, Director of Research, School of Natural Sciences

2020-current, Professor in Animal Behaviour

2017-2020, Senior Lecturer, Bangor University

2016-2017, Lecturer, Bangor University

2011-2016, Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast

2009-2010, Research scientist, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

2006-2008, Marie Curie Outgoing International fellow, Princeton University and University of Leeds

2002-2005, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Leeds

1999-2002, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Nebraska

1994-1998, DPhil, Oxford University

1990-1993, BSc (Hons), University of Nottingham

Research Area

Zoology

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    Is There Visual Lateralisation of the Sun Compass in Homing Pigeons?

    Griffiths, C., Holland, R. & Gagliardo, A., 5 Mai 2020, Yn: Symmetry. 12, 5, 740.

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    Juvenile Songbirds Compensate for Displacement to Oceanic Islands during Autumn Migration

    Thorup, K., Ortvad, T. E., Rabol, J., Holland, R., Tottrup, A. P. & Wikelski, M., 2011, Yn: PLoS ONE. 6, 3, e17903.

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  4. Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry

    Wikelski, M., Moxley, J., Eaton-Mordas, A., Lopez-Uribe, M. M., Holland, R., Moskowitz, D., Roubik, D. W. & Kays, R., 2010, Yn: PLoS ONE. 5

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    Migratory Eurasian reed warblers can use magnetic declination to solve the longitude problem

    Chernetsov, N., Pakhomov, A., Kobylkov, D., Kishkinev, D., Holland, R. & Mouritsen, H., 11 Medi 2017, Yn: Current Biology. 27, 17, t. 2647-2651

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    Migratory bats are sensitive to magnetic inclination changes during the compass calibration period

    Schneider, W. T., Holland, R. A., Keišs, O. & Lindecke, O., Tach 2023, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Biology letters. 19, 11, t. 20230181

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  7. Migratory navigation in birds: new opportunities in an era of fast-developing tracking technology

    Guilford, T., Akesson, S., Gagliardo, A., Holland, R. A., Mouritsen, H., Muheim, R., Wiltschko, R., Wiltschko, W. & Bingman, V. P., Tach 2011, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 214, 22, t. 3705-3712 8 t.

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    Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird

    Kishkinev, D., Packmor, F., Thomas, Z., Hans, W., Mouritsen, H., Chernetsov, N. & Holland, R., 12 Ebr 2021, Yn: Current Biology. 31, 7, t. 1563-1569

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  9. Navigation: Bat orientation using Earth's magnetic field

    Holland, R., Thorup, K., Vonhof, M. J., Cochran, W. W. & Wikelski, M., 7 Rhag 2006, Yn: Nature. 444, 7120, t. 702 1 t.

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    Orientation and flight behaviour identify the Soprano pipistrelle as a migratory bat species at the Baltic Sea coast

    Lindecke, O., Elksne, A., Holland, R., Petersons, G. & Voigt, C. C., 1 Mai 2019, Yn: Journal of Zoology. 308, 1, t. 56-65

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  11. Orientation and navigation in bats: known unknowns or unknown unknowns?

    Holland, R., Maw 2007, Yn: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61, 5, t. 653-660 8 t.

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  12. Orientation of vagrant birds on the Faroe Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

    Thorup, K., Ortvad, T., Holland, R., Rabøl, J., Kristensen, M. & Wikelski, M., 1 Hyd 2012, Yn: Journal of Ornithology. 153, 4, t. 1261-1265 5 t.

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    Personality effects on spatial learning: comparisons between visual conditions in a weakly-electric fish

    Kareklas, K., Elwood, R. W. & Holland, R., 2017, Yn: Ethology.

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  14. Place versus response learning in fish: a comparison between species

    McAroe, C. L., Craig, C. M. & Holland, R., Ion 2016, Yn: Animal Cognition. 19, 1, t. 153-161

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    Plasticity varies with boldness in a weakly-electric fish

    Kareklas, K., Arnott, G., Elwood, R. W. & Holland, R., 6 Meh 2016, Yn: Frontiers in Zoology. 13, 22

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  16. Polarized skylight does not calibrate the compass system of a migratory bat

    Lindecke, O., Voigt, C. C., Petersons, G. & Holland, R., 16 Medi 2015, Yn: Biology Letters. 11, 9, t. 1-4

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    Relationships between personality and lateralisation of sensory inputs

    Kareklas, K., Elwood, R. W., Arnott, G. & Holland, R., Gorff 2018, Yn: Animal Behaviour. 141, t. 127-135

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    Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use.

    Griffiths, C., Schiffner, I., Price, E., Charnell-Hughes, M., Kishkinev, D. & Holland, R., Gorff 2021, Yn: Animal Behaviour. 177, t. 159-170

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    Satellite tracking of red-listed nominate lesser black-backed gulls (Larus f. fuscus): habitat specialisation in foraging movements raises novel conservation needs

    Juvaste, R., Arriero, E., Gagliardo, A., Holland, R., Huttunen, M. J., Mueller, I., Thorup, K., Wikelski, M., Penttinen, M-L., Hannila, J. & Wistbacka, R., Ebr 2017, Yn: Global Ecology and Conservation. 10, t. 220-230

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    Sense of doubt: Inaccurate and alternate locations of virtual magnetic displacements may give a distorted view of animal magnetoreception ability

    Schneider, W., Holland, R., Packmor, F. & Lindecke, O., 20 Chwef 2023, Yn: Communications Biology. 6, 1, 8 t., 187.

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  21. Sensory systems and spatial memory in the fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus

    Holland, R., Winter, P. & Waters, D. A., Awst 2005, Yn: Ethology. 111, 8, t. 715-725 11 t.

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    Shoaling promotes place over response learning but does not facilitate individual learning of that strategy in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    McAroe, C. L., Craig, C. M. & Holland, R., 2017, Yn: BMC Zoology. 2, 10

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  23. Short distance phase shifts revisited: tracking clock-shifted homing pigeons (Rock Dove Columba livia) close to the loft

    Holland, R., Bonadonna, F., Dall'antonia, L., Benvenuti, S., De Perera, T. B. & Guilford, T., Ion 2000, Yn: Ibis. 142, 1, t. 111-118 8 t.

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  24. Studying the migratory behavior of individual bats: Current techniques and future directions

    Holland, R. & Wikelski, M., 15 Rhag 2009, Yn: Journal of Mammalogy. 90, 6, t. 1324-1329 6 t.

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  25. Testing the role of sensory systems in the migratory heading of a songbird

    Holland, R., Thorup, K., Gagliardo, A., Bisson, I. A., Knecht, E., Mizrahi, D. & Wikelski, M., 15 Rhag 2009, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 212, 24, t. 4065-4071 7 t.

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  26. The Secret Life of Oilbirds: New Insights into the Movement Ecology of a Unique Avian Frugivore

    Holland, R., Wikelski, M., Kummeth, F. & Bosque, C., 2009, Yn: PLoS ONE. 4, 12, e8264.

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