Two PhD studentships available (2011 start) University of Exeter

1. Facebook for geese: the causes and consequences of stable associations in a social forager
2. Disruption and disease: How does population management affect disease risk in wild bird populations?

These studentships will be based at the University of Exeter's large and dynamic Centre for Ecology & Conservation at our Cornwall campus and are part of a trio of PhD projects that build on the expanding collaborative research programme between the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA), the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) and the University of Exeter.

For more information and how to apply:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=766
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=767

Informal enquiries welcome: s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk and n.j.royle@exeter.ac.uk

No Brent yet in Iceland

Latest reports from Iceland (today) don't reveal any observations of Brent there as yet. Any day now however (best to migrate when you don't have a gale force headwind!)

http://notendur.hi.is/yannk/birdnews.html

IBGRG revamped website!

Hi,
Welcome to this new IBGRG blog where you can post messages relevant to the group and this species.
See http://www.irishbrentgoose.org