… testing the relationship between personality and collective decision-making in the wild.
First, we report that foraging flocks of great tits (Parus major) show strikingly synchronous …

… ) recombine socially-learned traits and (2) socially transmit a two-step trait. Our results show
birds could recombine skills into more complex foraging behaviours, and naïve birds across …

… more important than imitation for birds learning to forage, but the former mechanism … birds
in captivity. We present a study of social learning of foraging in two passerine birds in the wild, …

… Under this category of social foraging, we can study the mechanisms that operate either to
… recorded for a given bird in both foraging conditions. In the top panel, birds forage in low and …

… individuals’ social associations to all its conspecifics except their own partner (see the
Experimental Procedures), we find, as expected, that birds in compatible pairs mainly foraged with …

… were experimentally induced to forage with. Furthermore, over and above the changes to
foraging associations, we show preferential use of information provided by birds that produced …

… As the level of energy reserves predicts the use of social foraging … the foraging observations,
we captured all birds and removed all food items from the aviary. Highand low-ranked birds …

… Here we use bird-borne GPS and behavioural observation to study the … We examine how
foraging behaviour varies by colony and link tracked birds to the location of foraging rafts. …

… or individual characteristics on the ability to learn a novel task, we conducted a second
experiment in which the birds needed to acquire a new foraging skill (removing a rubber lid) in …

… Thus, exploring food resources in a bulbul source population was facilitated by social context,
indicating that social foraging is an important means by which birds successfully expand …