I am a DPhil student on the Intelligent Earth CDT. My research focuses on birds’ visual perception of their environments, embedded in anthropogenic landscapes. This includes how birds perceive their visual environment in the context of collisions, relating visual fields to collision vulnerability. I will also explore mechanisms of visually guided navigation in changing landscapes. Applying machine learning to this research enhances our ability to detect and predict patterns from multidimensional data, with potential developments to analytical methods also resulting. By informing mitigations through the lens of sensory ecology, this research can ultimately contribute to reducing human impacts on wild birds.
During my undergraduate degree, I worked with the Wytham Woods Great Tit population to research social trade-offs. My broader research interests include applying animal behaviour to biodiversity threats and understanding behaviour at the interface of the social and physical environments.
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