Campbell Murn
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Lecturer
Areas of interest
- Biology and conservation of birds of prey
- Visual fields and sensory ecology of birds of prey
- Disease ecology of obligate scavengers
- Impact of scavenger declines on disease ecology
Teaching
- Convener: Nature Conservation in Practice (Part 2)
- Contributor: Conservation Biology (Part 3); Landscape Conservation & Rewilding (MSc)
Research centres and groups
Member of Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- Head of Conservation & Research, Hawk Conservancy Trust
- Steering Committee Member - IUCN SSC Vulture Specialist Group
- Vice-Chair: Field Conservation Committee (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums)
- Board Member - SAVE (Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction)
Awards and honours
Esteem Factors- Royal Society of Biology (Fellow), Linnean Society (Fellow), Royal Geographical Society (Fellow)
- Editor: Vulture News - Journal of the IUCN Vulture Specialist Group
- Reviewer for 17 different ISI journals
Professional bodies/affiliations
National Collaborators
- Dr Lewis Halsey, University of Roehampton
- Dr Steve Portugal, Royal Holloway
International Collaborators
- Mr Andre Botha, Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa
- Mr. Muhamed Jamshed Chaudhry, WWF-Pakistan, Pakistan
- Dr Heidi M. Hauffe, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
- Prof. Ara Monadjem, University of Swaziland, eSwatini (Swaziland)
- Dr Darcy Ogada, The Peregrine Fund, Kenya
- Dr Simon Potier, Lund University, Sweden
Publications
- Portugal, S. , Ozturk, R. , Murn, C. , Potier, S. , Martin, G. (2023) Anomalous binocular vision in African Harrier-hawks. Current Biology , 33 (21). pp. R1142-R1143. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.016
- Johnson, T. and Murn, C. (2022) Testing the importance of individual nest-site selection for a social and group-living vulture. African Journal of Ecology ISSN: 1365-2028 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.13076
- Johnson, T. and Murn, C. (2022) Density of pied crows Corvus albus in two of South Africa’s protected areas. African Journal of Ecology , 60 (3). pp. 843-847. ISSN: 1365-2028 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.13004
- Stevens, M. , Murn, C. , Hennessey, R. (2020) Population change of Red Kites Milvus milvus in central southern England between 2011-2016 derived from line transect surveys and multiple covariate distance sampling. Acta Ornithologica , 54 (2). pp. 243-254. ISSN: 0001-6454 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00016454AO2019.54.2.010
- Van Walsum, T. , Perna, A. , Bishop, C. , Murn, C. , Collins, P. , Wilson, R. , Halsey, L. (2020) Exploring the relation between flapping behaviour and accelerometer signal during ascending flight, and a new approach to calibration. Ibis , 162 (1). pp. 13-26. ISSN: 0019-1019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12710
- Stevens, M. , Murn, C. , Hennessey, R. (2019) Population change of Common Buzzards Buteo buteo in central southern England between 2011 and 2016. Bird Study , 66 (3). pp. 378-389. ISSN: 1944-6705 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2019.1693960
- Murn, C. (2019) Talon-grappling and cartwheeling in hooded vultures. Journal of Raptor Research , 53 (3). pp. 353-354. ISSN: 0892-1016 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3356/JRR-18-91
- Johnson, T. and Murn, C. (2019) Interactions between Pied crows Corvus albus and breeding White-backed vultures Gyps africanus. Ethology Ecology & Evolution , 31 (3). pp. 240-248. ISSN: 0394-9370 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2018.1561523
- Murn, C. and Botha, A. (2018) A clear and present danger: impacts of poisoning on a vulture population and the effect of poison response activities. Oryx , 52 (3). pp. 552-558. ISSN: 0030-6053 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605316001137
- Monadjem, A. , Kane, A. , Botha, A. , Kelly, C. , Murn, C. (2018) Spatially explicit poisoning risk affects survival rates of an obligate scavenger. Scientific Reports , 8 ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22632-y
- Portugal, S. , Murn, C. , Martin, G. (2017) White-headed Vultures Trigonoceps occipitalis show visual field characteristics of hunting raptors. Ibis , 159 (2). pp. 463-466. ISSN: 0019-1019 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12448
- Murn, C. , Botha, A. , Wilson, B. (2017) The changing sizes of critically endangered white-backed vulture breeding colonies around Kimberley, South Africa. African Journal of Wildlife Research , 47 (2). pp. 144-148. ISSN: 2410-7220 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3957/056.047.0144
- Murn, C. , Mundy, P. , Virani, M. , Borello, W. , Holloway, G. , Thiollay, J. (2016) Using Africa’s protected area network to estimate the global population of a threatened and declining species: a case study of the Critically Endangered White-headed Vulture Trigonoceps occipitalis. Ecology and Evolution , 6 (4). pp. 1092-1103. ISSN: 2045-7758 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1931
- Portugal, S. , Murn, C. , Sparkes, E. , Daley, M. (2016) The fast and forceful kicking strike of the secretary bird. Current Biology , 26 (2). pp. R58-R59. ISSN: 0960-9822 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.CUB.2015.12.004
- Ogada, D. , Shaw, P. , Beyers, R. , Buij, R. , Murn, C. , Thiollay, J. , Beale, C. , Holdo, R. , Pomeroy, D. , Baker, N. , Krüger, S. , Botha, A. , Virani, M. , Monadjem, A. , Sinclair, A. (2016) Another continental vulture crisis: Africa's vultures collapsing toward extinction. Conservation Letters , 9 (2). pp. 89-97. ISSN: 1755-263X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12182
- Murn, C. and Holloway, G. (2016) Using areas of known occupancy to identify sources of variation in detection probability of raptors: taking time lowers replication effort for surveys. Royal Society Open Science , 3 (10). ISSN: 2054-5703 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160368
- Murn, C. , Saeed, U. , Khan, U. , Iqbal, S. (2015) Population and spatial breeding dynamics of a Critically Endangered Oriental White-backed Vulture Gyps bengalensis colony in Sindh Province, Pakistan. Bird Conservation International , 25 (4). pp. 415-425. ISSN: 0959-2709 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959270914000483