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The Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata) is the United Kingdom’s most threatened wader and is arguably the UK’s highest conservation priority species, due the global importance of the UK breeding population and the 48% decline it has experienced in the last 20 years.
Curlew population declines in the UK have been attributed to low breeding productivity, caused mainly by conversion of suitable habitat to agriculture and increased abundance of generalist predators. Curlews are well studied in the UK uplands and evidence-based conservation strategies have been implemented to increase breeding productivity in these areas. However, lowland curlew populations have received relatively less attention and persist with unsustainably low breeding productivity.
Working in collaboration with the BTO and RSPB, I will use an evidence-based approach to develop conservation management strategies, designed to increase breeding productivity and help reverse the decline of lowland curlew populations, in the UK.
I will use the Brecklands as my study area, which hosts the UK’s largest population of lowland breeding curlew. Using a variety of fieldwork techniques to survey and monitor this population, I aim to gain an in depth understanding of the breeding and habitat requirements of lowland curlews. This information can then be used to develop, implement and trial different evidence-based conservation strategies, with the aim of deployment at other lowland hotspots.
Master in Science
Oct 2016 → Sep 2017
Bachelor of Science
Oct 2011 → Jun 2014
Senior Research Assistant - Forest Birds Project - Lapland, Sweden, University of Zurich
Jun 2018 → Jul 2018
Bird Surveyor - Breeding Bird Monitoring Scheme - Cyprus, BirdLife Cyprus
Mar 2018 → May 2018
NERC-funded Research Assistant - Wader Nest Predation Project - Iceland, University of East Anglia
May 2016 → Jul 2016
Research Assistant - European Roller Research Project - Cyprus, University of East Anglia
Apr 2015 → Jun 2015
Senior Research Assistant - Ornithology-related Projects - Yunnan, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun 2014 → Oct 2014
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Pálsdottír, A. E. (Creator), Gill, J. (Creator), Alves, J. (Creator), Pálsson, S. (Creator), Méndez, V. (Creator), Ewing, H. (Creator) & Gunnarsson, T. (Creator), Dryad data repository, 1 Jun 2022
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