Working with the Surveys team, Bridget is responsible for providing support on developing the Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) programme and database, coordinating the production of official statistics, and reporting results from WeBS through data requests and annual reporting.

Bridget has experience in both fieldwork and research in the UK and USA. After completing her Master’s in Conservation and Biodiversity at the University of Exeter (Penryn) where she researched Blue Tit breeding success, she worked in Kaua’i, Hawai’i for over a year. Working with US Fish & Wildlife, she worked in Hanalei Refuge, helping with the conservation efforts of the 5 endangered native waterbirds. Following this, she finished the year off in Kaua’i working in a Hawaiian bird rehab facility, working as a seasonal field technician rehabilitating Shearwaters and other native Hawaiian birds. Following her work in Hawai’i, she then worked as a field technician in Alaska, working with Colorado State University in their Pacific Black Brant research.  Here, she worked in a remote fieldcamp in the Yukon Delta, carrying out nesting surveys of Pacific Black Brant, putting out webtags on hatchlings, and ringing at the end of the season.

Her fieldwork with waterbirds in Hawai’i and Alaska gave her a passion for waterbird conservation and the desire to work with the BTO to continue her conservation efforts in the UK.

BSc Biological Sciences (Zoology), Cardiff University, 2021

MSc Conservation and Biodiversity, University of Exeter (Penryn), 2022