Lewis Lancaster

@lewislancaster.bsky.social

Shearwater Whisperer | Seabird Ringer | Recent Oxford PhD grad! Senior research assistant at RSPB 👨🏼‍🎓🏳️‍🌈🪶 | he/him

🥳 New paper alert 🥳 The first of the data chapters from my DPhil, and the works from my first few field seasons on Skomer, is out! "Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales" - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... A huge thank you to everyone involved 🩵

Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales

Summary: A fine-scale displacement of Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging pelagic seabird, reveals that they preferentially adopt shorter homing routes following release at proximal sites, demonstrating ...

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