Cognition and Behavior of Food-Caching Birds

Many bird species engage in food-caching behavior to secure resources during times of abundance for later retrieval when provisions become scarce. The time scale of this behavior can range from hours or days (short-term) to weeks or months (long-term). Families such as Corvidae, Paridae, and Sittadae have been studied to understand how birds cache and relocate food stores that are scattered across the environment.

Our Special Collection, Cognition and Behavior of Food-Caching Birds, brings together research across disciplines and species on the evolution, mechanisms, and cognition of avian food-storing.

This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles and Reviews. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Cognition and Behavior of Food-Caching Birds" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage. Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published. The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.