Field season is ramping up in Bergen! A clutch of 11 blue tit eggs which will (hopefully) hatch soon. @amennerat.bsky.social
Freya Coursey
@freyacoursey.bsky.social
PhD candidate researching birds and parasites at the University of Bergen, Norway.
My first co-authored paper was published yesterday! Very grateful to have contributed to this work. Thanks to all the co-authors — especially Giuseppe for taking the reins and making it happen!
Our new review highlights growing challenges for owls, from road mortality to sensory pollution. Understanding these impacts is essential for their conservation in rapidly changing landscapes link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dornitholges.bsky.social @dmdominoni.bsky.social @pesumas.bsky.social
@freyacoursey.bsky.social's poster, showing the first preliminary data from her first PhD season, got quite a number of visitors at #EOU2025. Well done, and thanks to data & sample contributors and of course, to @spibirds.bsky.social for facilitating such large-scale studies 🙂 #ornithology
Last captures and last chicks ringed today, 9th monitoring season and @freyacoursey.bsky.social's 1st PhD season successfully completed ✅ Finally a good year for our breeding tits! despite the pine marten taking some late broods... my fingertips will now recover from those fighter females 😉
And so it starts for @freyacoursey.bsky.social's first PhD field season, and our 9th year of monitoring for Bergen... Found not only the first eggs a few days ago (😮), but also the first caterpillars today, in our newly set up urban sites.