Staff profile

In my project, I will explore the impacts of environmental change on the migratory journeys and breeding ecology of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) by developing a modelling framework that simulates the relationship between their migratory behaviour and population dynamics. Given their vulnerability to climate change, pied flycatchers provide an ideal system for developing and testing models of migratory behaviour. This modelling framework will allow me to investigate how climate change affects individual birds and drives population declines. Considering the scale of recent climate and land-use changes across migratory songbird ranges, such models are urgently needed.

Before starting this project, I graduated with a degree in Zoology from the University of Glasgow, having studied the impact of urbanisation on the behavioural ecology of urban bird populations.