For thtee years in a row, Amy King has been
involved with our Tawny Owl Release Project, and this year she is joined
by three students; Laura Keighley, Tracey Unwin and Ludovic Jégousse.
Research students - 2007
Amy King
This
is my third year working on the Tawny owl research programme,
and I am very much looking forward to tracking the owls again
this year.
Since the end of the project last year I have
been volunteering for the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Wildlife Trust as a Conservation Trainee. I have been learning
practical habitat management techniques including scrub clearance,
tree felling and surveying.
In October I am staring a Wildlife Management
and Conservation Masters at The University of Reading.
Laura Keighley
This
is my first time working on the Tawny Owl research programme
and I am delighted by the opportunity to learn how to track
owls.
I am currently on the second half of my Industrial
Placement for my Animal Science (Behaviour & Welfare) degree
and in September I am heading back down the University of Plymouth
for my final year.
Tracey Unwin
I
worked on the Tawny Owl Release Project in 2005, and am now
back to help out with the Project as it enters its third year.
I am also just finishing an MSc in Animal Behaviour and Welfare
at the University of Edinburgh, and have recently returned from
India where I was conducting my dissertation research on a troop
of wild rhesus macaques.
I hope to continue in the field of research,
with primates and birds being my main areas of interest.
Ludovic Jégousse
Hello,
I’m French and I‘m doing a training course at the
Hawk Conservancy Trust since April. I have a research master
in Ecology, Animal Behavior and Evolution which I passed at
the University of Rennes. This is the first time I have worked
with birds - previously I have worked with Asian Elephants in
a zoological park and the subject of my research master was
about migration of juveniles’ brown trout. So here I help
on the park, some days I do some research and now I take part
in the Tawny owl project.