Published Manuscripts
Julia Schroeder, Jamie Dunning, Alex H.H. Chan, Heung Ying Janet Chik and Terry Burke. Not So Social in Old Age: Demography as One Driver of Decreasing Sociality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Understanding Age and Society Using Natural Populations. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0458 Selected Press: Featured in print for the Guardian newspaper; and on television and radio BBC Breakfast and ‘Science at One’ IC Radio.
Jean-Lou Zimmermann, Serge Santiago, Jamie Dunning and Lukas Jenni. 2024. How Eurasian Woodcock Communicate in Dark Environments. British Birds [Accepted].
Neel Le Penru, Becky Heath, Lorenzo Picinali, Robert Ewers, Sarab Sethi and Jamie Dunning. 2024. Towards Using Virtual Acoustics for Evaluating Spatial Ecoacoustic Monitoring Technologies. Methods in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14405
Jamie Dunning, Aravind Ramesh and Micheal Owen. 2024. Siberian Lesser Whitethroat Curruca curruca blythi - New to Avon. The Avon Bird Report.
Jamie Dunning, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Antje Girndt, Terry Burke, Yu-Hsun Hsu, Shinichi Nakagawa, Isabel Winney and Julia Schroeder. 2024. Extra-pair Paternity Alongside Social Reproduction Increases Male Lifetime Fitness. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.04.007
Award: Outstanding Publication in Animal Behaviour
Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke and Julia Schroeder. 2023. Divorce is Linked with Extra-pair Paternity in a Monogamous Passerine. Journal of Avian Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03171
Yuheng Sun, Jamie Dunning, Julia Schroeder & Sue Anne Zollinger. 2023. Calls of Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus Contain Individual Signatures. Journal of Avian Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03170
[PhD Thesis] Animal Social Networks and Female Extra-pair Paternity. 2023. Imperial College London.
Sarah Dobson, Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke, Heung Ying Janet Chik & Julia Schroeder. 2023. Indirect Genetic Effects Increase Heritability Estimates for Male and Female Extra-pair Reproduction. Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad100.
(Joint first authorship).
Jamie Dunning, Anvay Patil, Liliana D’Alba, Alexander L Bond, Gerben Debruyn, Ali Dhinojwala, Matthew Shawkey & Lukas Jenni. 2023. How Woodcocks Produce the Most Brilliant White Patches Among the Birds. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0920
99th percentile of tracked research - Altmetric
Selected Press: Featured In print for BBC Wildlife Magazine, Science, National Audubon Society, Natural History Museum and the Telegraph newspaper; and on television for BBC SpringWatch (BBC Two)
Ismini Gkourtsouli-Antoniadou, Steven R. Eweing, George Hudson, Micheal A. Pearson, Julia Schroeder, Peter E. Welch, Nick Wilkinson & Jamie Dunning. 2022. Age-specific Survival in an English Twite Population. Bird Study. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2023.2166459 Featured on cover
Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke, Alex H.H. Chan, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Tim S. Evans & Julia Schroeder. 2022. Opposite-sex Associations are Linked with Annual Fitness, but Sociality is Stable Over Lifetime. Behavioral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac124
Editor’s choice - Behav. Ecol.
Yuheng Sun, Jamie Dunning, Sue Anne Zollinger & Julia Schroeder. 2022. Manx Shearwater Calling into a Burrow – Surveying for Occupancy? British Birds. https://britishbirds.co.uk/content/manx-shearwater-calling-burrow
Oliver C. Metcalfe, David Bradnum, Jamie Dunning & Alexander C. Lees. 2022. Nocturnal Overland Migration of the Common Scoter Melanitta nigra Across England. British Birds. https://britishbirds.co.uk/content/nocturnal-migration-common-scoters. Featured on cover
Selected Press: Feature for Bird Guides, see https://www.birdguides.com/news/massive-common-scoter-movement-takes-place/
Vita Ziva Alif, Jamie Dunning, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Terry Burke & Julia Schroeder. 2022. What is the best fitness measure in wild populations? A Case Study on the Power of Short-term Fitness Proxies to Predict Reproductive Value. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260905
Jamie Dunning, Tom Finch, Angus Davison & Kate L. Durrant. 2020. Population-specific Migratory Strategies of Twite Linaria flavirostris in Western Europe. Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12791 Selected Press: Reaserch was followed by feature in Gaurdian newspaper, see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/06/twite-or-pennine-finch-on-brink-of-extinction-in-england Bird Guides, see https://www.birdguides.com/news/twite-on-brink-of-extirpation-in-england/.
D. Cary Woodruff, Darren Naish & Jamie Dunning. 2019. Photoluminescent Visual Displays: An Additional Function of Integumentary Structures in Extinct Archosaurs?. Historical Biology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2020.1731806
Jamie Dunning, Anthony W. Diamond, Stephen E. Christmas, Emma-Louise Cole, Rebecca L. Holberton, Hannah J. Jackson, Kevin G. Kelly, Dean Brown, Indira R. Rivera. & Daniel Hanley. 2018. Photoluminescence in the Bill of the Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica. Bird Study. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00063657.2018.1563771
99th percentile of tracked research - Altmetric
Selected Press: Featured in National Geographic, the New York Times, The National Audubon Society, The Independent, BBC QI, BBC Planet Puffin, CBC, Disegno Journal and others; On television and online for BBC Earth, BBC SpringWatch (BBC Two) and the Secrets of Skin (BBC Four); Inspired a children’s book - It’s to Dark Puffling by Erika McGann and Gerry Daly, and cited in Birds and Us by Tim Birkhead.
Tom Finch, Claire Branston, Harriet Clewlow, Jamie Dunning, Aldina Franco, Edmunds Račinskis, Timothée Schwartz & Simon J. Butler. 2018. Context-dependent Conservation of the Obligate Cavity-nesting European Roller. Ibis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.12650
Jamie Dunning. 2018. Monitoring Twite in the UK & beyond. BTO Life Cycle. https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/publications/life_cycle_09_winter_2020_for_web.pdf
Tom Finch, Jamie Dunning, Orsolya Kiss, Edmunds Račinskis, Timothée Schwartz, Laimonas Sniauksta, Otto Szekeres, Béle Tokody, Aldina Franco & Simon J. Butler. Insights into the Migration of the European Roller From Ringing Recoveries. 2016. Journal of Ornithology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-016-1374-y
Featured Article - J. Ornithol.
Jamie Dunning, Roy A. Frost, Micheal A. Pearson & Stephen E. Christmas. 2016. Notes on a Neglected Twite Linaria flavirostris Population in Central England. British Birds. https://britishbirds.co.uk/content/notes-neglected-colony-twite-central-england
Jamie Dunning, Hugh Hanmer & Stephen E. Christmas. 2014. Hybridization Between House Martin Delichon urbicum and Sand Martin Riparia riparia: A New Observation and Review of Past Occurrences as a Case Study into Hybrid Reporting Rates. Ringing and Migration.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03078698.2014.997123
Submitted and Pre-print Manuscripts
Alex H.H. Chan, Jamie Dunning, Kristina B Beck, Terry Burke, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Daniel Dunleavy, Tim Evans, André Ferreira, Babette Fourie, Simon C. Griffith, Friederike Hillemann and Julia Schroeder. 2024. Animal Social Networks are Robust to Changing Association Definitions. Animal Behaviour and Sociobiology [Submitted]. (Joint first authorship).
Jamie Dunning, Josh A. Firth and Alastair I. Ward. The Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus is a Social Network Problem. [Submitted]
Jamie Dunning, Catherine Sheard and John A. Endler. Viewing Conditions Predict Evolutionary Diversity in Avian Plumage Colour. [Submitted].
Jessica K Hunter, Jamie Dunning, Alex H.H. Chan, Terry Burke and Julia Schroeder. The Genetic Basis of Social Network Traits in the Wild. [EcoEvoRxiv].
Amy Feakes, Isha Afeef, Julian Gervolino, Stephanie Köhnk, Emma Cavan and Jamie Dunning. Coming Out of Their Shells: Repeatable Social Preferences in Green Sea Turtles Chelonia mydas. [Submitted].
Jøgen S. Søraker and Jamie Dunning. The costs of extra-pair paternity. [EcoEvoRxiv].
Elliot Gould, Hannah S. Fraser, Timothy H. Parker, Shinichi Nakagawa, Simon C. Griffith, Peter A. Vesk, Fiona Fidler, et al. (302 authors). Same Data, Different Analysts: Variation in Effect Sizes Due to Analytical Decisions in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. [EcoEvoRxiv].
Libby Walden with Jamie Dunning, Illustrated by Chris Andrews. A Ladybird Book: Birds. Part of the A Ladybird Book series. ISBN: 0241626218 [Publication date: 09/10/2025].