Tom C. Lewis Email & Phone Number

Warminster, England, United Kingdom

Costa Rica

Elected to serve as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Macaw Recovery Network and also Chair the Strategic Planning committee.

Costa Rica

Fiscal on Macaw Recovery Networks Board of Trustees.

Costa Rica

Programs Manager, responsible for Education Program, Captive Breeding Program, and Release Program. Directly responsible for four managers: Education Coordinator, Bird Manager, Site Manager and Release Manager.Lead the development the local Environmental Education program partnership- Solicited for local non-governmental organisation (NGO) partners- Established partnerships between local NGOs & local teachers - Education programme planning & curriculum development

Costa Rica

Was responsible for the running of the captive breeding centre of 100+ macaws (Ara ambiguus + Ara macao). Directly managing the Bird Manager and the site maintenance team. Managed infrastructure developments- Lead design and building of 40m x 25m great green macaw pre-release aviary- Lead design and building of a new food preparation and storage areaLeading the development implementation of the project’s ‘Husbandry & Captive Breeding Centre Management’ apprenticeship programme. This was a 6 month live-in, where interns would come and learn about captive breeding and husbandry, reintroduction conservation and site management.- One of the highlights of developing and implementing this project was seeing apprentices arrive knowing very little and seeing them grow in confidence and ability over the 6-month program.

Costa Rica

Responsible for the care of 100+ macaws (Ara ambiguus + Ara macao). During this time my team developed a protocol for daily monitoring of bird health and well-being to help improve bird welfare and therefore reproductive success.

Costa Rica

Responsible for a release site of Ara ambiguus. This involved volunteer management, animal husbandry and field work to monitor the released birds. This was my first experience leading a conservation team and working in a new country. I developed the on-site ecotourism, improved the supplementary feeding protocol and developed onsite infrastructure so we could care for and rehabilitate injured release birds.

I won funding to continue the development of my macaw recogniser. Specifically, to create a UI to allow conservationist to use machine learning to extract target species detections from passive acoustic monitoring data.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

A short-term contract to provide expertise on processing of bioacoustic recordings of Long-tailed tits. The project aims to understand the key factors in kin-recognition within this system

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

I won a small grant to develop my great green macaw / scarlet macaw bioacoustic recogniser that I have created for my PhD. I improved performance of the recogniser from precision of 0.55 and recall of 0.80 to 0.84 and 0.86 respectively.

Salisbury, England, United Kingdom

Key responsibilities: - Monitoring the Berkshire downs stone-curlew population- Liaising with landowners about management of HLS Stone-Curlew plots- Nest finding & ringing of pullis

Mauritius

Key responsibilities:- Daily territory monitoring & nest finding - Leading a team carrying out targeted mist-netting of Olive White-Eyes- Training volunteers & junior field workers- Management of the project field station

Mauritius

Fieldworker monitoring pink pigeon breeding activity

Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Excel Southampton Part-time intern. Monitored bumblebee use of different field margin types.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Conservation Biology

Pre-prints: - Lewis et al 2023: Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate the abundance of a critically endangered parrot, the great.

Master Of Science - Ms, Conservation Biology, Distinction

Published MSc thesis: Lewis et al 2016: Habitat associations of the critically endangered São Tomé Fiscal Lanius newtoni: Comparing.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological Sciences, 2:2