I am a PhD student in the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research within the Department of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading. I also have external supervision from the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London, the Natural History Museum, and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, who have provided the long-term Fody monitoring dataset.
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A Vanished Harmony
A Vanished Harmony
The winter 2020 edition of the BES member’s magazine The Niche lands today! This ridiculously handsome bird is Amarula, a male Mauritius Fody, who I photographed when I visited Mauritius and Ile Aux Aigrettes in November 2018. In my post about this on Monday, I failed to mention the title of the article or why …
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Back in July of this year, the cape-sized bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a reef just off Mahébourg, on the south-east coast of Mauritius and a couple of kilometres from Ile Aux Aigrettes where my fodies live. I won’t re-hash all of the details here, but suffice to say that it was (and …
