Murray Borthwick

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ecologist, researcher, birder. (he/him)

[Irene Mendoza @phenogirl]

Almost 300 birds ringed in 3 days and one more working day with more #ringing and fruit counts for tomorrow. This would have been impossible without this amazing team! #MISMATCH #birds

[Irene Mendoza @phenogirl]

Congratulations to @BorthwickMurray
for the @CIEEMnet Award for the best Postgraduate Student Project!! I feel very fortunate for having him working on our team at the #MISMATCH project as a @TuringScheme_UK intern. 😊

https://t.co/J8zdTLHI50

[CIEEM @CIEEMnet]

Today's Winner's Spotlight is on Murray Borthwick from @EdinburghNapier who won the Postgraduate Student Project award for 'Land-use correlates of the spatiotemporal distribution of 4 wading bird species in southeast Scotland from 1988-2013' 👇

https://t.co/XoXMzMLbIN

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

Wow - absolutely thrilled to have won this award! Many thanks to @CIEEMnet , a shame I couldn’t attend the ceremony in person. Huge congrats to all winners 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[CIEEM @CIEEMnet]

And the Postgraduate Student Project Award sponsored by @Stantec goes to Murray Borthwick @EdinburghNapier.

[Jason Gilchrist @jgilchrist13]

MSc Wildlife Biology & Conservation @ Edinburgh Napier University. Closing fieldwork element of our field course today, ending 5 days of biodiversity survey training @ Hermitage of Braid/Blackford Hill LNR, #Edinburgh, Scotland. #EdinburghNapier #wildlife #ecology #MSc #Scotland

[Rachel Steenson @RachelSSteenson]

3 weeks in to my 2nd (3rd?) #phd field season surveying breeding Dippers! 🤩

The slightly earlier start this year means we're able to witness lots of singing, quarrels and nest building activity (missed last year due to COVID restrictions)!

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

Fantastic views of a kingfisher at @TheBotanics in Edinburgh today, feeding in the pond the whole time we were there

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

Started my day by spotting my first 3 #swifts of the year. Spent the rest of the day surveying raptors in the sun in the #Ochill hills - first dry day of surveying in forever! Feels like summer is finally on its way ☀️

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

My first #cuckoo of the year this morning in the #scottishborders didn’t expect to be hearing it in the snow!

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

Some great views this weekend monitoring peregrine and ravens in #Fife . Fantastic views of displaying and incubating birds. Plus some noisy flocks of c.200 jackdaws around the crags at Benarty 😍

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

@Practecology Thanks Iain! Looking forward to putting my bat survey skills to good use

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

I’ve got a grad job!! There’s been plenty of times in the last year that I thought this day would never come. I’m so excited to see where my new role takes me 🦅🌎

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

How it started and how it ended ☀️❄️#BigGardenBirdWatch #RSPB

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

A very grey day at the #WeBS patch, autumn colours are fading fast!

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

@gmd_bear @MonifiethHigh That would be fantastic!!

[Gail Miller @gmd_bear]

I love hearing news of former pupils. Today I learnt that @BorthwickMurray (from my first Higher Chem class @MonifiethHigh) graduated with a first class degree in Animal Biology and is taking steps towards a career in ecology. Congratulations Murray! 🎉 https://t.co/irc4cEQmTl

[ScotRaptorStudy @ScotRaptorStudy]

An interesting blog from NatureScot about their support for the next generation of ornithologists, and we get a mention too! Mentoring the next generation of conservationists https://t.co/nqlUGR6cAt via @wordpressdotcom

[Kelvin Thomson @thomsok]

Interesting blog, certainly a challenging time to be starting a career but a welcome addition to the @ScotRaptorStudy group network!

[Murray Borthwick @BorthwickMurray]

An invaluable experience which has helped me take the first steps in my career in such a challenging time. Thanks to my mentor Sue Haysom and to @EdinburghNapier @EdNapierAlumni for creating the micro-mentoring scheme!

[NatureScot @NatureScot]

A great blog today from our ornithologist Sue & her mentee @BorthwickMurray on what they both gained from their #mentoring partnership under a Napier University programme https://t.co/j9sVaU80Az