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Dr James Pay

@JamesMPay

Postdoc at #UTAS studying the endangered Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle | GPS tracking and cameras 🦅 🎥 he/him 🏳️‍🌈

 Tasmania, Australia
Joined March 2010
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As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them? @JamesMPay @UTAS_ theconversation.com/overhead…
Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devast...

Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devast...

As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them?

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Stoked to have a cover photo for @EcographyJourna! In our paper doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07421 we included temporal dynamics into SSFs, resulting in daily patterns of movement and habitat selection. Simulating then gave us dynamic spatial predictions Code! github.com/swforrest/dynamic…
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Fantastic PhD opportunity to get to grips with the maths of population monitoring – via Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles: utas.edu.au/research/degrees… @UTAS_ @JamesMPay #ScienceTwitter #PhD #ecology #maths #threatenedspecies #monitoring #conservationbiology #PhDchat #Tasmania #Australia
Image from Clare Hawkins (@Ottercivet)
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Vix Franks@VixFranks21 Feb 2023
MRes 2023/24 applications now open @uochester @BioSciChester! Two projects with me - on social behaviour/conservation in birds🐦& camels🐫. Plus other projects covering wide interests. Please share far & wide! #findamasters #postgraduatestudy www1.chester.ac.uk/biologica…
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Chris MacColl@CMacColl12 Dec 2022
And thats a wrap for PhD fieldwork! Four seasons of surveys, nest monitoring, and tagging birds has come to an end with our last juvenile tagged this morning for our survival study. On to analysing data and writing up findings! Hopefully they can help support this species
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Chris MacColl@CMacColl28 Nov 2022
We learnt a lot from this one bird...
Australian Wildlife Conservancy (@awconservancy) profile pictureAustralian Wildlife Conservancy@awconservancy27 Nov 2022
For years, we've been tracking the movements of the Red Goshawk, Australia’s rarest bird of prey. And recently, one flew +1350km to the arid zone, Marion Downs! This is a bird that lives in the tropical forests of Northern Australia... or so we thought! 📷B Leue, S Cherriman/AWC
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Image from Australian Wildlife Conservancy (@awconservancy)
Image from Australian Wildlife Conservancy (@awconservancy)
Image from Australian Wildlife Conservancy (@awconservancy)
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new paper: "Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage" was just published! royalsocietypublishing.org/d… In it, we ask: how does great gray owl hunt thru snow? Part of the answer is this enormous facial disc they have (largest of any owl species)
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🚨new paper alert! Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild, research...

Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild, research...

Captive-breeding programs lead to shorter wing spans in birds and behavioural changes that leave animals more vulnerable to predators, global study finds

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USGS in Oregon@USGS_OR18 Oct 2022
Researchers used GPS tracking to analyze the behavior of Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles. Info on where behaviors occur on the landscape can guide planning for new roads, power lines, and wind turbines to minimize risk. Read more: ow.ly/LuYI50Lcsgo 📷 by Francesco Veronesi
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Amazing photo of 9 wedge-tailed eagles in one shot: Wedge-tailed eagles gather for vulture act in stunning photo abc.net.au/news/2022-04-27/w… @abchobart
Wedge-tailed eagles gather for vulture act in stunning photo

Wedge-tailed eagles gather for vulture act in stunning photo

Australia does not have vultures, but a Tasmanian bird watcher's photograph shows they are willing to take the role on.

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If you thought yesterday's pic was a David & Goliath encounter, what do you make of this? Peregrines at #Gibraltar also go for Griffon Vultures! @Birder_Griffon @GibReserve @ThinkingGreenGI @gonhsgib @BBCSpringwatch #BBCWildlifePOTD @WildlifeMag @BirdWatchDaily @BirdWatchDaily
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Snowy Owl floofing
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ALERT! Powerful owls don't generally eat rodents yet in this paper we show 83% of them have rat poison in their livers. Likely explanation possums are eating rat poison and being eaten by owls! Extremely concerning on many levels. New threatening process? authors.elsevier.com/c/1eRxx…
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Chris MacColl@CMacColl27 Dec 2021
Behold the first ever Red Goshawk known to be 2 years of age thanks to tracking this bird since it was a fledgling in 2019 (notice the antenna protruding from its back). See that it's legs are now yellow, the belly has turned white from rufous & the head is a light grey (1/5)
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Leeds Birder@leedsbirder5 Nov 2021
A successful hunt for this Short-Eared Owl at sunset. Higher quality version here: vimeo.com/642859664 #phonescoping
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Juvenile raven being captured by wedge-tailed eagle in front of a #cameratrap in the North West Conservation Alliance on #kangarooisland #KILfW #WildOz – at South Australia, Australia
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Rodenticides are awful for raptors, including Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles (in which our research - led by @JamesMPay - found high levels of SGARs). While encouraging & awaiting change, explore alternatives to the most dangerous rodenticides, listed here: landcaretas.org.au/rodentici…

Rodenticides - Landcare Tasmania

Landcare Tasmania is the collective voice for over 300 community Landcare groups, supporting grassroots environmental action across the state. We advocate, connect, and empower Tasmanians to care for...

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BirdLife Australia (@BirdlifeOz) profile pictureBirdLife Australia@BirdlifeOz12 Oct 2021
Please join us in calling for Bunnings to take bird-killing poisons off their shelves! Sign the petition at: actforbirds.org/ratpoison Thanks to our successful crowdfunder, we’ve analysed liver samples from 38 Powerful Owls to test for rodenticide poisoning. Here’s what we found.
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I shot this while on a boat trip. The sea eagle is the largest bird of prey in Northern Europe. This was shot in the Lofoten Islands, Norway. #seaeagle #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #BBCWildlifePOTD #BirdsSeenIn2021 #birding #NaturePhotography #wildlife #lofoten #norway – at Vågan, Norge
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Fi_hume@FiHume9 Sep 2021
Wild weather on the farm today. #wedgetailedeagle @Ottercivet @jamespay
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Very excited to introduce our new R package MrIML (Multi-response interpretable machine learning). This package provides a suite of machine learning tools to help analyse community-level/ecological genomic/microbiome datasets. @molecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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