ABOUT ME
since 2007 – freelance field biologist (marine and terrestrial)
since 2009 – certified bird ringer
2012 – foundation of Birds in Flight – bird ID guide
2020 – co-foundation of the Finch Research Network
SCIENTIFIC SOUND RECORDINGS
-> Birds in Flight – bird ID guide
-> Xeno-Canto
CURRENT RESEARCH
Structure and repertoire size of Garden Warbler Sylvia borin songs. Occurrence of intra-specific and inter-specific repertoire sharing.
Structure and repertoire size of Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria songs. Occurrence of intra-specific and inter-specific repertoire sharing.
Geographical variation in Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes flight calls and the relation to different subspecies.
Geographical variation in Pallas’ Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi vocalisations and the relation to different subspecies.
PAST RESEARCH
Sex-related vocalisations of Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla.
Individual and sex-related vocalisations of Mongolian Gulls Larus vegae mongolicus.
BIOACOUSTICS, CONSERVATION & EDUCATION
selected clients, institutions and collaborators
Animal Sound Archive
Birds of Kazakhstan
Birds in Flight – bird ID guide (founder)
Bloomsbury Publishing
British Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellschaft
Estonian Ornithological Society
Finch Research Network
Hessische Gesellschaft für Ornithologie und Naturschutz
iBird
Museum der Natur Gotha
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig
NHBS
NOI-Media-Print
Ornithologischer Verein zu Leipzig
The sound approach
UNESCO Biosphärenreservat Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft
Xeno Canto
MONITORING & CONSULTING
selected clients