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Dr Rupert C
Marshall
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rmm@aber.ac.uk
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(+44) 01970 -
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Arthur Dafis
(University Press Office)
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aid@aber.ac.uk
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(+44) 01970 -
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2013
Miscellaneous contributions
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BBC Radio Wales Science Café
broadcast a special feature on birdsong from Aberystwyth
9/4/13. Visit the Programme's
website
for more info - (UK residents can listen to the programme on
this website).
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Independent on Sunday 10/3/13
"Why did the hedgehog NOT cross the road?" An
article on animal adaptations to urban environments. I
was asked for comments on where research currently stands,
what the next steps are and suggested a few of the examples.
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Radio 4 "Sleepless Night"
11/2/13 - I contributed to this programme, describing how
urban wildlife is changing its behaviour to cope with modern
life, including a few song clips. Further details on the
programme
here.
Listen
now on the BBC i-Player (until 18th Feb).
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2012
Miscellaneous
contributions
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BBC
Antiques Roadshow,
2/12/12. A brief contribution featuring the University
zoology museum's kakapo (flightless New Zealand owl parrot). Expert Adam Schoon and I discuss its heritage... and value. (I'm the one
in the Edwardian blazer). Read the Press Release
here. (Sorry, the BBC only made the programme availalbe
online for 7 days.)
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Daily Express
"Mice Can Sing"
article 12/10/12. Contributing interviewee on
similarities between animal and human behaviours (yes, I
know humans are animals...)
Coverage of my
corn bunting song dialect project on the Hebrides
Coverage of the
ASAB Easter
Conference that I co-hosted with Dr Roger Santer
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2011
Miscellaneous
contributions
Coverage of our
paper on song transmission in the journal PLoS ONE
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BBC Radio 4
Today Programme
audio Interview: "Birdsong differs due to landscape"
13/12/11
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BBC1 Breakfast
Show (television)
"Birds have regional accents" 13/12/11
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Financial Times
Magazine
article (scroll down to the 3rd story) "City birdsong takes note of architecture" 6/1/12
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The Daily
Telegraph newspaper
article "Urban birds sing at higher pitch" 13/12/11
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The Daily Mail
newspaper
article "City birds sing louder and more sweetly than
their country cousins to stop sound being distorted by
buildings" 13/12/11
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The Sun
newspaper
article "Birds living in cities have different accents"
13/12/11
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Western Mail
newspaper
article "Urban birds find their voice with a new type of
twitter" 13/12/11
Coverage of my
project student Victoria Franks winning the SET (Europe) Biology
Student of the Year Award:
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2009
Miscellaneous
Contributions:
Coverage of our
paper on variation in responses to urban and rural birdsong in
the journal
Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
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