John F. McEvoy

I've recently started collaborating on a fantastic project looking at the foraging behaviour and nesting success of endangered swift parrots (Lathamus discolor) in Tasmania. My good friends and colleagues Dejan Stojanovic and Matthew Webb at ANU have been studying these beautiful and vulnerable birds for years and have recently deployed GPS tags on a select few of them as well as painstakinly gathering data on flowering trees and nestling success. I'm pitching in to help out

Another great collaboration that I'm lucky to be involved with is with Nurzhafarina Othman and Benoit Goosens at Cardiff University's Danau Girang research station in Borneo. Nurzhafarina has been working on her PhD for the last few years studying the movement behaviour and habitat use of Bornean pygmy elephants (Elephas maximus borneensis). I've been part of a great team of people helping out with the analysis of complex movement data and remotely sensed habitat data to dete

Biodiversity East is a conservation NGO that brings together scientists working across the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. I am proud to be an associate member and you should check out their great work by clicking here. #Wildlife #Ecology #AnimalMovement #Conservation #Science #MovementEcology #EndangeredSpecies