A day in the life of a seabird biologist
Being a seabird biologist, my life is quite varied. Sometimes I'm in the field, working with the birds I'm studying, and other times I'm behind a desk or a lab…
AOC conference poster
The alternative title for this post is "Edin does the science". I've written a few posts about my Master's project over the course of this year which you can read…
Tools of the Trade
This year so far has been nothing short of amazing. My research takes me to wild and wonderful places on a regular basis - being a biologist definitely suits my…
Tawharanui
A few weekends ago I went up to Tawharanui Open Sanctuary for the evening to help out with some Grey-faced petrel banding. It was something I'd been trying to do…
What am I doing?
I realised that I've not really explained what I'm doing for my Master's particularly well here. I spent so much of last year planning it out that it's just become…
The everyday life of a biology Master’s student
So I'm doing my Master's this year. It means I spend a lot of time not taking photos (most of my University career has meant this, to be honest), and…
Connect the birds – mist-netting in Auckland
A bird in the hand is...usually quite angry. Especially the larger ones. So when the first bird of the day is a big angry Tui, what do you do? You…
Eyes on Wild Pigs in the Hunua Ranges
The Hunua Ranges are just to the south-east of Auckland, a tangle of knife-edge ridges and deep gullies covered in native bush. A few weeks back (more like a month…