Hugo Ferreira, a PhD student at CESAM, was the winner of the “Best Student Presentation” award at the XI Congress of Ornithology and II Macaronesian Ornithology Conference organized by SPEA – Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, which took place from November 22 to 26 in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores.
The title of the winning presentation is “Presence and Function of Artificial Items in Eurasian Spoonbills Nests,” which is part of Hugo’s doctoral thesis on the theme: “Demographic processes of a long–distant migratory waterbird facing global changes.”