Kate Risely
Garden BirdWatch Organiser
Kate leads the BTO's Garden Ecology team and co-ordinates the programme of garden ecology surveys and research, within the Communications department.
Interests & Responsibilities
Kate has overall responsibility for running for Garden BirdWatch, a 'citizen science' project where volunteers record birds and other taxa using their gardens on a weekly, year-round basis, as well as additional garden-based surveys. Kate is interested in the research and conservation applications of our garden wildlife data.
Other Information
Ringing trainer and 'A' permit holder, and worked in the BTO Ringing team 2004 - 2007
Organised the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey from 2007 - 2014
Member of the New Networks for Nature Steering Group
Contribute monthly articles to BirdWatching Magazine
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Zoology, University of Nottingham 1998-2001Recent BTO Publications
2019.
The composition of British bird communities is associated with long-term garden bird feeding.
Nature Communications
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10111-5)
2018.
Spatio-temporal dynamics and aetiology of proliferative leg skin lesions in wild British finches.
Scientific Reports
8
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32255-y)
2018.
Health hazards to wild birds and risk factors associated with anthropogenic food provisioning.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
View at journal website (DOI: /10.1098/rstb.2017.0091)
2016.
Garden Birds and other wildlife.
British Trust for Ornithology
Link to publication
ISBN: 978-1-908581-68-6
224pp
2016.
Patterns and causes of covariation in bird and butterfly community structure
.
Landscape Ecology
30 (part 8)
: 1 461-1 472
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1007%2Fs10980-015-0199-z)
2015.
Is supplementary feeding in gardens a driver of evolutionary change in a migratory bird species?.
Global Change Biology
21
: 4 353-4 363
Link to publication
View at journal website (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13070)
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