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Michelle Gibson's fieldwork in the Australian Outback

7/8/2014

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Michelle Gibson has just completed her first field season in the Australian Outback. Michelle left for the field on 12 July 2014 and has been surveying birds along three mega-transects (tracks) in the Australian outback. You can read about her project here. Michelle reports that her first field campaign was a great success and you can see from the photos that it was biodiverse! Michelle is currently spending two weeks at the University of Queensland with her co-supervisor Rich Fuller and the Fuller lab. 
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Michelle on a dune on the Birdsville track
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Elegant Parrot, southern Strzelecki Track
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 Wedge-tailed Eagle eating carrion
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 Zebra Finches on barbed wire surrounding an oil well near Innamincka Regional Reserve
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Afternoon survey shadows against rocky gibber
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A group of Little Corella (about 5000 total) congregated near a waterhole
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Bearded Dragon, southern Strzelecki Track
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Brown Falcon, one of the most common raptors on the survey this year
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A dingo coming to investigate us during a transect survey
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Two red kangaroos watching us during a later afternoon transect
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One of the most rare and threatened raptors in Australia- the Grey Falcon- perched on a radio tower
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Brolga at one of the many boreholes that provide year-round water for cattle
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Michelle Gibson heads to the Australian Outback for Fieldwork

15/7/2014

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Michelle's mega-transects through the Australian Outback
Michelle Gibson, a CEG PhD student, has left Durham and gone straight into the Australian Outback for three weeks of fieldwork. She, along with colleagues from the Fuller Lab, will be conducting mega-transect surveys for birds in this rugged environment. Michelle's research investigates how nomadic birds respond to extreme weather events and will ultimately evaluate how vulnerable or resilient avian species in this environment are to climate change. 

After two days in the field Michelle reports that things are going well and sent the photo below! She is surprised at how many parrots they are seeing on their surveys and bragged that on one of her transects they observed kangaroos and emus. The rest of us here in the office in Durham are currently suffering from project envy! Michelle is a first year PhD student and is on her first of three fieldwork campaigns. Check back here for more updates from Michelle over the next 3 weeks or to read more about Michelle's project visit her profile page here...
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Day two of bird surveys in Australia
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Andrew Rogers reports from Fieldwork in Borneo

20/6/2014

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Andrew Rogers, is a visiting researcher in our group, who recently started fieldwork in Borneo. Andrew was lucky enough to get video coverage of the Bornean bearded pig, Sus barbatus, at night using a camera trap. Andrew is working at the Danum Valley Conservation Area in Malaysian Borneo alongside researchers from Sheffield University collecting carbon data in primary and logged lowland rainforest.
Turns out photographing wildlife in primary rain forest with a 60+ meter canopy is hard work, but Andrew is gradually honing his skills and has some photographs to prove it:
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Red leaf monkeys  
(Presbytis rubicunda) 
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Male orangutan 
(Pongo pygmaeus)
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Oriental pied hornbill
 (Anthracoceros albirostris
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Mysterious hawkmoth
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Unknown moth
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Yet another unknown moth- perhaps this is a job for Stu?
Stay tuned for more Borneo updates from Andrew or follow us on twitter!
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