Movement & Spatial Ecology of Australian Shorebirds
This Research Project is conducted within the Center for Conservation Science by Maxime Marini (PhD candidate), Andrea S. Griffin (Associate Professor) and many other collaborators.
The project aims to better understand spatial and movement ecology of Australian shorebirds, as their behaviours within and across local estuaries of the Hunter and Port Stephens. Trying to address varied questions as where and when do they move? What roles tidal and circadian cycles are playing into these movements? Where and when birds are foraging and/or roosting? Do the species share or segregate their food resources? How much the inter-tidal areas (mudflats) extents infer demographic trends?
We collected our main data-set thanks to the valuable help of the Hunter Birder Observer Club of Newcastle, which allowed us to trap and equip birds with a band, a flag marker and a Motus Lotek Nano-tag. Blood and feathers were sampled and other bio-metrics were also taken.
We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Pambalong clan of the Awabakal nation, as we pay our respect to the Elders past, present and emerging.
We recognise that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded.
This continent always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.
Photo: © Darleen Cooper - Stronger Together (2021)
