This page contains press material for journalists covering my research.
Immune gene diversity in a threatened island bird
June 2020
Photos available for press about the paper High MHC gene copy number maintains diversity despite homozygosity in a Critically Endangered single-island endemic bird, but no evidence of MHC-based mate choice (Stervander, Dierickx, Thorley et al. 2020). All pictures can be freely used for media coverage about the paper (but not for other purposes), with the condition that © René Pop / The Sound Approach is clearly credited. Click the thumbnails below to retrieve the full-size images.
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- A Raso lark Alauda razae on the barren Raso Islet in the Cape Verde archipelago in 2007. Photo © René Pop / The Sound Approach.
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- A Raso lark Alauda razae on the barren Raso Islet in the Cape Verde archipelago in 2007. Photo © René Pop / The Sound Approach.
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- A Raso lark Alauda razae on the barren Raso Islet in the Cape Verde archipelago in 2007. Photo © René Pop / The Sound Approach.
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- A Raso lark Alauda razae on the barren Raso Islet in the Cape Verde archipelago in 2007. Photo © René Pop / The Sound Approach.
The world’s smallest flightless bird
October 2018
Photos available for press about the paper The origin of the world’s smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae) (Stervander et al. 2019). All pictures can be freely used, but we ask that the photographers are credited appropriately. Click the thumbnails below to retrieve the full-size images.
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- The Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) that contributed DNA for the study. Photo: Peter G. Ryan.
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- The head of the Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) that contributed DNA for the study. Photo: Peter G. Ryan.
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- An Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) in the hands of Martin Stervander demonstrates its greatly reduced wings. Photo: Martim Melo.
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- Inaccessible Island is aptly named. Photo: Peter G. Ryan.
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- Lead author Martin Stervander is studying a common diving-petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix) on Inaccessible Island. Photo: Martim Melo.
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- An Inaccessible Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) has just been banded by Martim Melo. Photo: Martin Stervander.
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- Three fourths of the research team during field work on Inaccessible Island: from left to right Martim Melo, Peter G. Ryan, and Martin Stervander. Photo: Martim Melo.
