2024

Shaw, P., Ogada, D., Dunn, L., Buij, R., Amar, A., Garbett, R., Herremans, M., Virani, M. Z., Kendall, C. J., Croes, B. M., Odino, M., Kapila, S., Wairasho, P., Rutz, C., Botha, A., Gallo-Orsi, U., Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Maude, G. and Thomsett, S. (2024) African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (1). pp. 45-56. ISSN 2397-334X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02236-0

2023

Portugal, S. J., Ozturk, R., Murn, C. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Potier, S. and Martin, G. R. (2023) Anomalous binocular vision in African Harrier-hawks. Current Biology, 33 (21). R1142-R1143. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.016

2022

Johnson, T. F. and Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 (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://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13076

Johnson, T. F. and Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 (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://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13004

2020

Stevens, M., Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 and 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://doi.org/10.3161/00016454AO2019.54.2.010

Van Walsum, T. A., Perna, A., Bishop, C. M., Murn, C. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Collins, P. M., Wilson, R. P. and Halsey, L. G. (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://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12710

2019

Johnson, T. F. and Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 (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://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2018.1561523

Stevens, M., Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 and 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://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2019.1693960

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 (2019) Talon-grappling and cartwheeling in hooded vultures. Journal of Raptor Research, 53 (3). pp. 353-354. ISSN 0892-1016 doi: https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-18-91

2018

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 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://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605316001137

Monadjem, A., Kane, A., Botha, A., Kelly, C. and Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 (2018) Spatially explicit poisoning risk affects survival rates of an obligate scavenger. Scientific Reports, 8. 4364. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22632-y

2017

Portugal, S. J., Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 and Martin, G. R. (2017) White-headed Vultures Trigonoceps occipitalis show visual field characteristics of hunting raptors. Ibis, 159 (2). pp. 463-466. ISSN 0019-1019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12448

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Botha, A. and 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://doi.org/10.3957/056.047.0144

2016

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060 and Holloway, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-0313 (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). 160368. ISSN 2054-5703 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160368

Ogada, D., Shaw, P., Beyers, R. L., Buij, R., Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Thiollay, J. M., Beale, C. M., Holdo, R. M., Pomeroy, D., Baker, N., Krüger, S. C., Botha, A., Virani, M. Z., Monadjem, A. and Sinclair, A. R. E. (2016) Another continental vulture crisis: Africa's vultures collapsing toward extinction. Conservation Letters, 9 (2). pp. 89-97. ISSN 1755-263X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12182

Portugal, S. J., Murn, C. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Sparkes, E. L. and Daley, M. A. (2016) The fast and forceful kicking strike of the secretary bird. Current Biology, 26 (2). R58-R59. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CUB.2015.12.004

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Mundy, P., Virani, M. Z., Borello, W. D., Holloway, G. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-0313 and Thiollay, J.-M. (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://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1931

2015

Murn, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-6060, Saeed, U., Khan, U. and 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://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270914000483