Postdoc at #UTAS studying the endangered Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle | GPS tracking and cameras 🦅 🎥 he/him 🏳️🌈
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20 Sep 2021
Wyatt the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle reached a new personal best altitude of 1950 m the other day. Using the thermal updraft he gained up to 4.5 m/sec in height. #wedgetailedeagle 🦅
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Fine‐scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines - researchgate.net/publication…
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14 Jul 2025
New Research! Unmasking the impact of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides on masked owls tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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26 Jun 2025
New research! 🦅Fine-scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines @JAppliedEcology
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19 Jun 2025
Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll
@ConversationEDU
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As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them? @JamesMPay @UTAS_ theconversation.com/overhead…
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3 Feb 2025
Stoked to have a cover photo for @EcographyJourna! In our paper doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07421 we included temporal dynamics into SSFs, resulting in daily patterns of movement and habitat selection.
Simulating then gave us dynamic spatial predictions
Code! github.com/swforrest/dynamic…
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14 Aug 2023
Fantastic PhD opportunity to get to grips with the maths of population monitoring – via Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles:
utas.edu.au/research/degrees…
@UTAS_ @JamesMPay
#ScienceTwitter #PhD #ecology #maths #threatenedspecies #monitoring #conservationbiology #PhDchat #Tasmania #Australia
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21 Feb 2023
MRes 2023/24 applications now open @uochester @BioSciChester! Two projects with me - on social behaviour/conservation in birds🐦& camels🐫. Plus other projects covering wide interests. Please share far & wide! #findamasters #postgraduatestudy chester.ac.uk/biological-sci…
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12 Dec 2022
And thats a wrap for PhD fieldwork! Four seasons of surveys, nest monitoring, and tagging birds has come to an end with our last juvenile tagged this morning for our survival study. On to analysing data and writing up findings! Hopefully they can help support this species
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28 Nov 2022
We learnt a lot from this one bird...
27 Nov 2022
For years, we've been tracking the movements of the Red Goshawk, Australia’s rarest bird of prey. And recently, one flew 1350km to the arid zone, Marion Downs! This is a bird that lives in the tropical forests of Northern Australia... or so we thought!
📷B Leue, S Cherriman/AWC
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23 Nov 2022
new paper: "Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage" was just published! royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
In it, we ask: how does great gray owl hunt thru snow? Part of the answer is this enormous facial disc they have (largest of any owl species)
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20 Nov 2022
🚨new paper alert!
Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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18 Oct 2022
Researchers used GPS tracking to analyze the behavior of Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles. Info on where behaviors occur on the landscape can guide planning for new roads, power lines, and wind turbines to minimize risk. Read more: ow.ly/LuYI50Lcsgo
📷 by Francesco Veronesi
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6 Oct 2022
New paper- authors.elsevier.com/a/1fqaG…
We present an approach for predicting where animals perform different behaviours.
Using data from Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagles we map where perching, short and long flights are likely to occur, which can help manage this endangered population.
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26 Apr 2022
Amazing photo of 9 wedge-tailed eagles in one shot: Wedge-tailed eagles gather for vulture act in stunning photo
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-27/w… @abchobart
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10 Mar 2022
Georgie the adult female Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle reached a new highest altitude! This video shows her flight where she reached over 2 km high 🦅 #wedgetailedeagle #endangered
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3 Mar 2022
We've been tracking Woldja the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle since she took her first flight out of her nest as a young eagle. This video shows her flying around the Tasmanian Midlands for four years before settling into her own territory #wedgetailedeagle 🦅
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17 Feb 2022
Two young wedge-tailed eagles are having a stand-off at one of our feeding stations...
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15 Feb 2022
If you thought yesterday's pic was a David & Goliath encounter, what do you make of this? Peregrines at #Gibraltar also go for Griffon Vultures! @Birder_Griffon @GibReserve @ThinkingGreenGI @gonhsgib @BBCSpringwatch #BBCWildlifePOTD @WildlifeMag @BirdWatchDaily @BirdWatchDaily
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