Dr Lucy Magoolagan is interested in behavioural ecology, ornithology and bioacoustics. Her masters research involved song site selection in dippers. So studying dipper song and breeding ecology for a PhD was a perfect fit. She’s now hoping to continue research in these areas in a postdoctoral role
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How early environment affects the quality of a dipper’s song
Successful PhD student Dr Lucy Magoolagan explains why her research, on the song of Britain’s only aquatic songbird, captured the imagination of the producers of the BBC Springwatch programme