BlueGreen Labs run multiple lines of research on bird behaviour in collaboration with Belgian and international partners (among others the MAVA Foundation, Swiss Ornithological Institute). Here, Lyndon focuses on research within the context of bird strikes on wind mills (as consultant for Belora vzw), to breeding and non-breeding season behaviour of swifts using state-of-the-art bio-logging sensors.
Lyndon is an expert in the deployment and management of bio-logging field campaigns and a frequent invited speaker at international institutions within this context. Recently, he was awarded the “Wim Dings” prize for his recent paper on swift foraging behaviour titled: “The aeroecology of atmospheric convergence zones: the case of pallid swifts” and his career as a whole. Dr. Koen Hufkens covers larger data science driven processing, with a keen interest into movement ecology statistics, state-space modelling and migration dynamics.
Select publications
- Hufkens et. al 2023 -Evaluating the effects of moonlight on the vertical flight profiles of three western palaearctic swifts
- Kearsley et al. 2022 - The aeroecology of atmospheric convergence zones: the case of pallid swifts
- Zhao et al. 2022 - A 30,000-km journey by Apus apus pekinensis tracks arid lands between northern China and south-western Africa