4 December 2018 - Gull Day!
Published: 10 October 2018
Please join us to for our first Gull Day! Together with the Tag-n-Track Team from Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park we are organising a full day of talks and discussions about gulls, with a diversity of speakers covering a range of topics including tracking, gull diet, urban gulls and public engagement.
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Graham Kerr Building, LT2
Please join us to for our first Gull Day! Together with the Tag-n-Track Team from Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park we are organising a full day of talks and discussions about gulls, with a diversity of speakers covering a range of topics including tracking, gull diet, urban gulls and public engagement.
Programme
09.30-10:00 Registration & Welcome
Movement
10:00-10.20 Iain Livingston, CRG - ‘What colour ringing can tell us on movements of gulls’
10.20-10.40 Anouk Spelt, Bristol - ‘Habitat use of an urban-nesting seabird during the
breeding season
10.40-11.00 Nina O’Hanlon, Thurso – ‘Non-breeding resource use by a super generalist’
11:00-11:10 Discussion
11.10-11.40 Tea break
Food
11.40-12.00 Agnes Olin – ‘Sandeels and kittiwakes: not as simple as it seems’
12.00-12.20 Ruedi Nager – ‘The effect of rubbish diet on gulls’
12.20-12.40 Rebecca Lakin, St. Andrews – ‘Gulls and garbage: The influence of an
anthropogenic diet on gull chick phenotype'
12:40-13:00 Andrew Tongue, Birmingham – ‘Feeling the Heat? Gulls as Bioindicators of Flame
Retardant Emissions from Landfill’
13.00-13.15 Discussion
13.15-14.15 Lunch
Public Engagement
14.15-14.45 Hayley Douglas – ‘TaG’N’Track public outreach programme’
14:45- 15:00 Hannah Riley – 'Accessable technology: Movebank and Animal Tracker'’
15.00-15.20 Anouk Spelt, Bristol – ‘The Urban Gull Project: From Gulls to Drones’
15.20-15.40 Nina O’Hanlon, Thurso – ‘Citizen science and plastic in gulls’
15.40-16.00 Final questions & discussion and Closing
First published: 10 October 2018