Seabird Ecology

We pursue a range of interests on the breeding ecology of seabirds and how  they interact with their environment.

  • Together with Dr Katherine Herborn and Dr Alex Wilson at the University of Plymouth we run the Gulls Eye Project. It also includes a number of partners around the UK. Using a simple App, we aim to test whether behaviour and response to human interactions can indicate the gull’s perception of their environment. Using a short survey, we also would like to learn more about human’s perception of gulls. We aim to achieve both using large scale citizen science data.

  • Influences on environmental change and connectivity between marine and grazing habitat on crofted islands
  • Changes in resource utilisation in declining gull populations - Field Feather Sampling (pdf)
  • Seabirds as monitors of the coastal waters - Movement of gulls in coastal habitat
  • Generalist seabirds as monitors of the Faroese environment
  • Predatory gulls, movement and disease transmission