Robert Driver, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

About the author

Robert Driver

Robert Driver is currently a PhD candidate at East Carolina University in the lab of Dr. Chris Balakrishnan. He is interested in bird sensory biology, particularly how birds smell, and plans to continue the research described in this initial investigation.

What’s in an English bird name?

By Robert Driver|2021-10-29T09:36:37+00:001 Nov 2021|IBIS, inclusivity, museum collections, natural history, nomenclature, systematics, Taxonomy|

How can we improve on English common bird names?

How important is smell to birds?

By Robert Driver|2021-09-30T13:00:50+00:0013 Sep 2021|avian biology, evolution, Genetics, genomics, olfaction, sensory ecology, smell|

Genes used to detect odours are numerous in birds