Avian Ecologist; International Research Lead; Acoustic Lab Co-Lead
edward.jenkins@briwildlife.org
207-839-7600 x106

As BRI’s International Research Lead, Ed works on a range of projects relating to bird conservation and research across the U.S, East Africa, and elsewhere. Director of the Wildlife Forensics Lab and co-lead of the Acoustics Lab, Ed supports BRI’s research centers and programs with his expertise in avian ecology and conservation. Ed also coordinates River Point Bird Observatory, overseeing migration monitoring as well as training staff and volunteers.

Prior to joining BRI in 2020, Ed worked on various avian research and conservation projects spanning the globe from Australia and New Zealand, to China, Israel, and Malta. He earned his M.Sc. at the University of Manitoba studying seabird foraging ecology in Newfoundland.

• M.Sc. Biological Sciences. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 2018
• B.Sc. Environmental Conservation. University of Hull, Hull, UK. 2010.

Expertise and Experience

• Extensive avian research including banding of over ~10,000 birds (songbirds, shorebirds, raptors, owls), blood and feather sampling, deploying of GPS, satellite, and radio tags.
• Censusing including nest-searching, breeding bird surveys, point counts, and boat-based transects.
• Geospatial and statistical analysis in R.
• Report writing and publication of peer-reviewed literature.

Jenkins, E., and Stenhouse, I.J. In prep. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa, Canada.

Maynard, L., Gulka, J., Jenkins, E., and Davoren, G. 2022. At-colony behaviour of great black-backed gulls Larus marinus following breeding failure. Marine Ornithology 50: 19-204.

Gulka, J., Jenkins, E., and Williams, K.A. 2022. Workshop Proceedings for the State of the Science Workshop on Wildlife and Offshore Wind Energy 2020: Cumulative Impacts. 77 pp

Popper, A.N., Williams, K.A., Jenkins, E., Higgs, D.M., Krebs, J., Mooney, A., Rice, A., Roberts, L., Thomsen, K., Vigness-Raposa, K., and Zeddies, D. 2022. Offshore wind energy development: Research priorities for sound and vibration effects on fishes and aquatic invertebrates. Journal of Acoustical Society of America

Maynard, L., Gulka, J., Jenkins., E., and Davoren, G. 2021. Different individual-level responses of great black-backed gulls (Larus marinus) to shifting local prey availability. PLoS ONE 16(10)

Co-author on seven Workgroup Reports from the State of the Science Workshop on Wildlife and Offshore Wind Energy 2020: Cumulative Impacts; focused on Bats, Benthos, Birds, Environmental Stratification, Sea Turtles, Sound and Vibration Effects on Fishes and Aquatic Invertebrates, and Marine Mammals.

Gulka, J., Jenkins, E., Maynard L.M., Montevecchi, W.A., Davoren, G.K. 2020. Inter-colony foraging dynamics and breeding success relate to prey availability in a pursuit-diving seabird. Marine Ecology Progress Series 651:183-198.

Jenkins, E., and Davoren, G.K. 2020. Seabird species- and assemblage-level isotopic niche shifts associated with changing prey availability during breeding in coastal Newfoundland. IBIS 163(1): 183-196.

Jenkins, E., Gulka, J., Yurkowski, D., Le Francois, N.R., Wong, E., Davoren, G.K. 2020. Isotopic discrimination (δ¹⁵N, δ¹³C) in captive and wild Common Murres (Uria aalge) and Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 93(4): 296-309.

Jenkins, E., Gulka, J., Yurkowski, D.J., Davoren, G.K., Gonzalez, L. 2019. Diet–tissue discrimination factors (δ¹⁵N and δ¹³C values) for blood components in Magellanic (Spheniscus magellanicus) and southern rockhopper (Eudyptes chrysocome) penguins. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 34:e8612.

Jenkins, E. 2019. Birds of Northeastern Newfoundland: Observations from 2017-2018. The Osprey.

Jenkins, E., Gulka, J., Maynard, L., and Davoren, G.K. 2018. Seabird population update and trends from six colonies in Northeastern Newfoundland. Canadian Wildlife Service Report.

Gulka, J., Carvalho, P.C., Jenkins, E., Johnson, K., Maynard, L., Davoren, G.K. 2017. Dietary niche shifts of multiple marine predators under varying prey availability on the northeast Newfoundland coast. Frontiers in Mar. Sci. 4:324.

Piludu, N., Jenkins, E., Gulka, J., and Kovacs, E. 2018. First hand-rearing and translocation of vulnerable Yelkouan shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan, in Malta. Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation 38(1)

Co-author with C. Artuso of two species accounts in The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Manitoba, 2010-2014. C. Artuso, A.R. Couturier, K.D. De Smet, R.F. Koes, D. Lepage, J. McCraken, R.D. Mooi, P. Taylor (eds). Bird Studies Canada. 2018.