Do you have a love for stats and would you be keen on doing a PhD with the lovely @mmoiron.bsky.social on eco-evolutionary dynamics in the terns, co-supervised by me? Then apply by 25/10/2024:
<div>The PhD position is embedded in the research project "Of terns and change: eco-evolutionary dynamics in a rapidly changing environment...
What happens when terns & quail meet life history theory? If that sounds like an intriguing question, have a look at @kokkonut.bsky.socialevol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
Do you know which bird I tried to draw here? If you do, apply for one of the postdoc positions we are offering... and if you don't, perhaps apply for the other one! We are looking for life history/theory-ecoevo expertise in birds and "in general". evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
Across 6 years, we marked common tern family members to study their provisioning behaviour & energy acquisition. The resulting paper, showing that both parents and offspring vary in quality, reflected in their feeding rate, is out now in Animal Behaviour: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
And as a last update for today: 317 birds have now been registered by our antenna system, compared to 401 and 860 on the same day in 2022 and 2023, respectively. So it looks like #avianinfluenza#HPAI#H5N1#seabirds#ornithology#fieldwork#ternscience
In other lovely news: the first chick of 2024 hatched two days ago. We're hopeful for a big baby-boom to make up for the #HPAI#seabirds#ornithology#fieldwork#ternscience
This is the 33rd year in which we mark the eggs of the Banter See common terns according to their laying order and it seems like at least one of the birds has caught on to it. :-) #longtermstudy#seabirds#ornithology#fieldwork#ternscience
