Professor in Animal Behaviour, particularly interested in flight & animal movement. Part of @MovingAnimals, Associate Ed @MethodsEcolEvol & Animal Biotelemetry
Swansea University
Joined September 2015
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Such a delight to be part of this and so good to see it out. Congratulations Kim and the rest of the team!
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Interested in joining @MovingAnimals or any of the other fab Biosciences teams from abroad as a Newton Fellow? Let us know. EOIs in by 14th Feb royalsociety.org/-/media/gra…
Emily Shepard retweeted
New paper out! Free-ranging dog (FRD) populations are increasing and are becoming a huge problem for wildlife conservation and people in several regions of the world, especially the Global South. FRDs are killing people and wildlife. In this perspective.. rdcu.be/dmQot
Made possible by the collaboration with the fantastic @SERGIOLAMBERTUC, his team & @JimboStlawrence
Ping @ScaccoMartina
Yet another paper just out, enjoy!
Extremely low daylight sea-crossing flights of a nocturnal migrant academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
Two wks to apply for this PhD @swansearesearch w @KonsWells & I, plus wonderful int. collaborators
Interested in linking animal movement & macroecology? I am EXTREMELY excited to announce a PhD studentship on large soaring birds, w high-frequ condor data, in collaboration with Kons Wells, @SERGIOLAMBERTUC, @animaltracking, @safilabmpi. Apply here: shorturl.at/iqyMW
Thanks so much for putting this out there. It is so important that we talk about good supervision, and what that looks like, as well as the bad, which often gets more press
What are some good qualities your supervisor has?
#PhDVoice @PostdocVoice
Interested in linking animal movement & macroecology? I am EXTREMELY excited to announce a PhD studentship on large soaring birds, w high-frequ condor data, in collaboration with Kons Wells, @SERGIOLAMBERTUC, @animaltracking, @safilabmpi. Apply here: shorturl.at/iqyMW
What a pleasure to explore data from red-billed choughs and visualize their behaviour as they are reintroduced to Dover by the team @WildwoodTrust
Productive time at @SwanseaUni last week working with @ELCShepard analysing the behaviour of reintroduced choughs with data collected using their 'Daily Diary' tags. Looking forward to getting some nice results!
#redbilledchough #research #conservation #reintroduction
Thank you to the fantastic @RhonddaBryant for an uplifting, warm & wide-ranging talk on strangers & neighbours @SwanseaUni tonight. Thank you 🙏
AND your much deserved Marsh award @TheSimsLab!
Along with many other awards to incredible & inspiring scientists and conservationists. What an honour to be alongside them all. Thank you @OfficialZSL for a lovely evening
Celebrating the @OfficialZSL Scientific Medal awarded to the brilliant @ELCShepard for leading edge research on the mechanisms underlying movements of flying animals, well done! @SwanseaUni @thembauk
Fantastic PhD opportunity to work within a very supportive group
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Emily Shepard retweeted
IMPORTANT news: 14 guillemots and 4 razorbills from the current mortality have all come back negative for #HPAIV from @APHAgovuk
This supports the idea that this mortality is related to prey availability. Is this the extreme marine heatwave's effects?
#aukwreck #heatwave
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I'm absolutely delighted Manos - this is richly deserved and they couldn't have awarded it to a nicer person. Huge congratulations! 🙌
I couldn't be happier to share I have won the 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 (2022) in the Faculty of Science and Engineering @SUSciEng at @SwanseaUni. I am forever grateful to @ELCShepard & @AndrewRossLeeds for their unprecedented support all these years
Emily Shepard retweeted
The Isle of May kittiwakes currently being hammered by Avian Influenza. Mortality was low until the last fortnight creating a thoroughly depressing situation. We aren't yet seeing mass mortality at the nests, as also noted in 2022. 1/2
The east coast of the U.K. is being hit badly by avian influenza for a second consecutive summer. Vulnerable populations are threatened further and it’s depressing to see. The blog has the story: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com/
Whoop whoop! Fingers crossed all goes well. Can't wait to see your data
First round of tagging complete ✅️
Our red-billed chough chicks were fitted with their tags yesterday and are getting ready for release! Three types of tag are being used (thread) with each bird carrying one type.
@KentWildlife @WildwoodTrust @ELCShepard @PTES
This is fabulous! (and reminds me of a talk I gave on soaring and morphology where I said auks weren't going to be soaring any time soon - just goes to show that if the air is rising fast enough...). Wonder if guillemots ever manage it
First proper westerly wind in ages. Recording sheets tied down, hat stapled to head, binoculars rammed in eye sockets. But the Razorbills are wind dancing a metre away. The best auk, surely? Discuss @TheSeabirdGroup @UK_CEH @SteelySeabirder @nature_scot @Natures_Voice
