Nina O'Hanlon, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

About the author

Nina O'Hanlon

Nina O’Hanlon is a Research Ecologist at BTO Scotland, with a particular interest in seabird ecology and conservation. After a PhD on Herring Gull foraging ecology, Nina did a post-doc at the Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, where she is still an Associate, investigating anthropogenic threats to seabirds, focusing on plastics and oil pollution.

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Untangling the problem of plastic nests

By Nina O'Hanlon|2021-08-27T08:32:12+00:0030 Aug 2021|bird-human interactions, fisheries, nest monitoring, nesting, nesting material, plastics, pollution, Seabirds|

Can an opportunistic approach be used to measure plastic pollution?

Plastic nests

By Nina O'Hanlon|2020-12-15T17:22:05+00:0030 Sep 2019|nesting material, plastics, pollution, Seabirds|

Monitoring anthropogenic debris in Northern Gannet nests

Photographing gull eggs

By Nina O'Hanlon|2020-12-15T17:44:40+00:001 Jul 2019|Conservation, diet, eggs, Seabirds, stable isotopes|

How resource use can affect egg traits in Herring Gulls

Tweeting birds: social media promotes ornithology citations

By Nina O'Hanlon|2021-05-07T12:47:27+00:008 Nov 2017|Altmetric, blog, blogging, Facebook, sciblogging, scicomm, science blogging, science communication, social media, Twitter|

Communication of science as an integral part of research, not an unnecessary add-on

Using cameras to investigate egg predation

By Nina O'Hanlon|2021-08-20T09:55:56+00:006 Mar 2017|nest predation, predation, Seabirds|

Investigating Brown Rat predation of seabird eggs using camera traps and experimental nests