Almut Schlaich is a PhD student at the Dutch Montagu’s Harrier Foundation supervised by Prof. Christiaan Both at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Prof. Vincent Bretagnolle at the CNRS (Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé) in France. She started studying Montagu’s Harriers during her Master’s thesis on the stopover ecology of harriers at a key stopover area in Morocco. For her PhD project she investigates space use and behaviour of individuals tracked by UvA-BiTS GPS-loggers in breeding areas in Europe as well as wintering areas in the Sahel.
