Tamara Sundl, BSc

Tamara.Sundl@student.uibk.ac.at

I completed my bachelor´s degree in Graz, Styria. For my bachelor’s thesis, I investigated the impact of haymaking on a population of the bull bush-cricket, Polysarcus denticauda, in a meadow in south-east Styria.

In autumn 2024, I moved to Innsbruck to start my master´s degree in ecology and biodiversity, and I am currently working on my master’s thesis. As I hadn’t had much exposure to ornithology until now, I wanted to learn something new and work with birds on my master’s thesis.

My thesis is a collaboration between Boku Vienna and the Molecular Ecology Group in Innsbruck and focuses on the white-winged snowfinch, Montifringilla nivalis, an alpine specialist threatened by climate change. Using a webcam to monitor a feeding station in Zettersfeld, Lienz, I will investigate the influence of meteorological variables on the presence of the white-winged snowfinch at the site. Furthermore, we aim to identify the daily and seasonal patterns exhibited by the snowfinch throughout the winter period at the feeding station.

Research topics
Alpine ecology
Conservation biology
Ornithology
Wildlife monitoring