Kirsty Franklin, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

About the author

Kirsty Franklin

Kirsty is a Conservation Scientist at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), working on various offshore wind focused seabird tracking projects. Before her current position, Kirsty completed her PhD at the University of East Anglia & Institute of Zoology and used a combination of spatial, genetic and environmental data to investigate the drivers of ocean movement patterns in Round Island petrels. Kirsty’s PhD was the first to be funded by the BOU’s John and Pat Warham Studentship Fund.

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Understanding migration in ocean environments

By Kirsty Franklin|2023-10-30T08:39:54+00:0030 Oct 2023|bird movements, BOU members, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, island birds, Migration, News, publications, remote sensing, Round Island petrel, RSPB science, satellite tracking|

Long-term tracking of Round Island petrels across the Indian Ocean

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

From PenguinWatch to PetrelWatch!

By Kirsty Franklin|2021-01-04T16:54:14+00:0021 Dec 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, citizen science, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

If you have ever wanted to visit an Indian Ocean seabird colony, here is a chance to do so – albeit remotely.

Round Island fieldwork

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-10-07T08:08:01+00:0020 Feb 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

Warham PhD Student Kirsty Franklin, tells us about her first field season in the Indian Ocean

The ‘Round Island’ petrel conundrum

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-12-15T17:24:44+00:0022 Aug 2019|BOU Warham Student, ECR, Round Island petrel, Seabirds, tracking|

The first BOU John & Pat Warham Studentship

#ORNITHOLODAY | 6 February 2019

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-10-15T15:13:33+00:0030 Jan 2019|Community, Conferences, News, scicomm, Science, science communication, Seabirds|

A look back at previous World Seabird Twitter Conferences and information on the forthcoming #WSCT5