Tim talks with Tom Squires – Manchester Met PhD student studying mynah birds in Indonesia...

In this interview we talk about his PhD and the Asian Songbird Crisis. We also talk about what its like doing a PhD generally, doing any kind of ecology further education really. We also discuss the merits of being a generalist, and about that most mysterious of attributes: being a birder.

Thanks:

Kelly Lomas & Gif Lemon - Artwork

'Still Pickin', Kevin Macleod - Theme tune

Related links:

IUCN – Species Survival Commission 

https://www.iucn.org/commissions/species-survival-commission/about

Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group

https://www.iucn.org/commissions/ssc-groups/birds/asian-songbird-trade

 
The Tourist Gaze

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/urry-globalising-the-tourist-gaze.pdf

 
British Bird Sounds on CD – British Library

https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Bird-Sounds-CD-Definitive/dp/0712305122

 
The Behavioural Ecology and Evolution Podcast

http://thebeepcast.blogspot.com/

 
Beth Roberts

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beth_Roberts3

 
Asian Songbird Crisis

https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/10987/

 
Birdsong competition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de8S9VMLAo

 
Beaver eating lettuce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54NHiDzvsM

 
Alfred Russel Wallace (and the ‘Wallace Line’)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-was-alfred-russel-wallace.html