My keen interest in island bird species conservation was developed through fieldwork in The Bahamas when I conducted an island-wide survey of the pine forest specialist birds of Grand Bahama Island. I subsequently led a research paper on the Bahama Warbler distribution and its habitat preferences to its publication – the first study of its kind.
During the same fieldwork in 2018, we rediscovered the endemic Bahama Nuthatch, however, sadly it may now be extinct following Hurricane Dorian’s devastation of the island in 2019 – we investigate this further in our second research paper from the same survey. I have other specific experience researching island species (e.g. Eleonora’s Falcon in Greece).
I am also a bird ringer (trainee) having ringed in Wales, Greece and most recently in 2024, I surveyed and ringed neotropical birds of Honduras as part of an expedition with Operation Wallacea (my PhD’s industry partner).
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