Emily Shepard, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

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Emily Shepard

Emily Shepard is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biosciences, Swansea University. She started working on birds during her PhD, which was on the foraging ecology of imperial cormorants. She then transferred her loyalties from the sea to the air, studying the movements of Andean condors. Emily now has a foot in both camps, with projects examining the flight behaviour of both vultures and seabirds, and how aspects of the ecology of both groups are influenced by airflows.

Flight

By Emily Shepard|2021-10-14T08:01:26+00:009 Jan 2017|feathers, flight, foraging, Migration, molt, moult, tracking, weather, wind|

A look at the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, examining how flying animals respond to the challenges – and opportunities – that come with moving in a medium that is, itself, on the move.