CAnMove

M. Sc. at Lund University 2004, with a master thesis on "Utilisation of the modern agricultural landscape by Golden Plovers during autumn migration". Accepted as a PhD student in the Migration Ecology Group later the same year but now in a different project.

My research will now focus on migration and orientation in waders. I am going to investigate different migration patterns of waders and the relative importance of celestial and magnetic cues in their migratory orientation. I will use several methods to pursue the questions of this thesis, among other things, orientation cage experiments, DNA-analyses, stabile isotope analyses, use radio transmitters and analyses of ringing recoveries. The main bird species I plan to study are Dunlins, Little Stints and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers. The field work will be conducted in Sweden, mostly at Ottenby but also in Alaska during the Beringia Expedition.

Supervisor: Susanne Åkesson
Co-supervisor: Thomas Alerstam