My first postdoc has involved using long-term data to better understand population dynamics of migratory shorebirds. Shorebirds face a myriad of threats, including habitat degradation along their migratory route and climate change impacting their breeding and non-breeding grounds. 

Recently, population declines have been stabilizing. To figure out why this is, I'm working as part of a collaborative team investigating their population dynamics and conservation management actions that have been undertaken. My part of this project is to understand how their breeding success, expressed as juvenile proportions, fluctuates through time and with varying climate. 

To investigate this, I use data from community scientists that has been collated on BirdMark.net