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Sept 2025

Invited speaker at Avian Odyssey, annual meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, United Kingdom.

Batumi Raptor Count: Migration counts as vehicle to research and conservation in the East African-Eurasian Flyway.

Sept 2025
Presenter at International Wader Study Group Conference, The Netherlands.
Circannual patterns of flyway-scale habitat use and selection in migratory waders: Why natural habitats matter.
Apr 2025
Presenter at British Ornithologists Union (Frontiers in Ornithology), United Kingdom.
Intra- and interspecific differences in habitat use and selection throughout the annual cycle in migratory waders.
Apr 2024
Poster presenter at NWO Polar Day, The Netherlands.
Uncovering the breeding biology of Bewick's Swans with telemetry data.
Feb 2024
Presenter at Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, The Netherlands.
The effects of personality on spring migration timing of Red Knots.
Sept 2023
Presenter at International Wader Study Group Conference, Germany.
The effects of personality on spring migration timing of Red Knots.
Oct 2022
Poster presenter at British Ornithologists Union (BOUasm 2022), Online.
Batumi Raptor Count: how citizen-science enables research and conservation in a flyway under threat.

Aug 2026
Guest Lecturer at Summer Course Birds, University of Amsterdam.
Monitoring massive raptor migration in the Caucasus: How volunteering drives research and conservation in a flyway under threat.
May 2026
Invited speaker at DialoGreen Egypt.
Batumi Raptor Count: How volunteer migration counts drive scientific research and nature conservation in the East African-Eurasian Flyway.
Apr 2026
Guest Lecturer at Honours Course Birds, University of Amsterdam.
Monitoring massive raptor migration in the Caucasus: How volunteering drives research and conservation in a flyway under threat.
Sept 2025
Invited speaker at This Side of Paradise, The Netherlands (in Dutch).
Batumi Raptor Count: from migration monitoring to conservation in a flyway under threat.
Dec 2025
Invited lecturer at University of Algarve, Portugal.
Presented my BSc thesis on the effects of personality and food availability on migration timing in Red Knots.
Sept 2024
Invited speaker at Batumi Bird Festival, Republic of Georgia.
Batumi Raptor Count: Lessons from 16 years of volunteer migration counting in the Batumi bottleneck.
July 2022
Presenter at Global Birdfair, United Kingdom.
Batumi Raptor Count: The migration of one million raptors in the Batumi Bottleneck.