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Lewis Lancaster

@lewislancaster.bsky.social

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Shearwater Whisperer | Seabird Ringer | Recent Oxford PhD grad! Senior research assistant at RSPB 👨🏼‍🎓🏳️‍🌈🪶 | he/him

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Alongside my paper, I was asked a few questions by the JEB about my research journey and life! Have a read here: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... 🐦🧗🏼‍♂️🌊🏔️

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thank you to my co-authors, Sarah, Joe M, Trina, Joe W, Paddy, Alana, Emma, Barbara, and Max. And of course, my supervisors, Tim Guilford and Oliver Padget. @morfjoe.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social @plewin.bsky.social @olliepadget.bsky.social

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I cannot thank the team of @skomerisland.bsky.social enough for letting me live and work on this incredible island over the past four years.

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Following this finding, we discuss the learning mechanisms that may underpin this navigational efficiency - including how birds might distinguish between routes where the absolute difference in payoff is minimal, but the relative payoff is large. Give it a read! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In this study, we displaced Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging seabird, to proximal sites around their home colony. We found that, despite very slight differences in route payoffs in comparison to their free-ranging movements, shearwaters adopt the most efficient routes when returning home.

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Lewis Lancaster @lewislancaster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🥳 New paper alert 🥳 The first of the data chapters from my DPhil, and the works from my first few field seasons on Skomer, is out! "Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales" - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... A huge thank you to everyone involved 🩵

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Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales

Summary: A fine-scale displacement of Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging pelagic seabird, reveals that they preferentially adopt shorter homing routes following release at proximal sites, demonstrating ...

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