Biography & Research
For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by birds and nature in general. As a keen birder, I have been fortunate to explore much of my home country of South Africa while looking for birds. The questions raised by experiences in the field and my love for evolutionary biology pushed me to study ornithology.
I completed BSc in Biology and Applied Statistics at the University of Cape Town in 2022. I am currently doing my BSc Honours research project, investigating the relationships between temperature, egg phenotypes and parental behaviour in ground-nesting birds in Zambia (supervised by Prof. Claire Spottiswoode, Dr Nicholas Horrocks and Dr Shannon Conradie).
My interest is in evolutionary biology, especially the origins of phenotypic plasticity, and the role of plasticity in adaption and speciation.