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The seabird team aims to understand the causes and consequences of seabird connectivity across the Western Indian Ocean Region. During the project, I will be exploring the foraging ecology of red-footed boobies and wedge-tailed shearwaters as well as dispersal and foraging mechanisms in immature red-footed boobies. This research will answer new questions about tropical seabird foraging decisions as well as informing current and future spatial protection.
We have so much to learn from tracking the at-sea movements of seabirds; about how our marine ecosystems function, and how to protect them in the face of ongoing change.
Biography
My Project
My Publications
Homing Navigation is Optimized to Diurnal Constraints in a Tropical Seabird, the Red-Footed Booby
Coste, J., Votier, S.C., Dunn, R.E., Freeman, R., Nicoll, M.A., Carr, P., Wood, H., Trevail, A.M. (2025). Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby. Animal Behaviour.
ExMove: An Open Source Toolkit for Processing and Exploring Animal Movement Data in R
Langley, L.P., Lang, S., Ozsanlav-Harris, L., Trevail, A. (2024). ExMove: An open source toolkit for processing and exploring animal movement data in R. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Comparable Foraging Effort and Habitat Use Between Two Geographically Proximate Tropical Seabird Colonies
Trevail, A.M., Vallocchia, S., Nicoll, M.A.C., Carr, P., Votier, S.C., Wood, H., Freeman, R. (2024). Comparable foraging effort and habitat use between two geographically proximate tropical seabird colonies. Marine Biology.
Geolocation and Immersion Loggers Reveal Year-Round Residency and Facilitate Nutrient Deposition Rate Estimation of Adult Red-Footed Boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, Tropical Indian Ocean
Votier, S.C., Corcoran, G., Carr, P., Dunn, R.E., Freeman, R., Nicoll, M.A.C., Wood, H., Trevail, A.M. (2024). Geolocation and immersion loggers reveal year-round residency and facilitate nutrient deposition rate estimation of adult red-footed boobies in the Chagos Archipelago, tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Avian Biology.
From Route to Dive: Multi-Scale Habitat Selection in a Foraging Tropical Seabird
Dunn, R.E., Freeman, R., Nicoll, M.A., Ramsden, J., Trevail, A.M., Wood, H., Votier, S.C. (2024). From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird. Marine Biology.
