E-mail: darling @ uvic.ca
Twitter @ Nature_darling
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Siobhan Darlington CV 2019
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About Me

I'm originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia and am passionate about answering applied questions in landscape and wildlife ecology with conservation implications.

In my spare time, you'll often find me binoculars and camera in-hand wandering the natural places where I live and work for birding and wildlife photography opportunities.

I have previously collaborated with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Bird Studies Canada, Acadia University, the UWSS, the University of Guelph,  Rocky Point Bird Observatory, InnoTech Alberta, and fRI Research in the field on community conservation projects and species at risk research across Canada. 

         View current projects below
Coming soon:
Interactions of predators, prey, and people:

Cougar response to green-up from wildfire and human disturbance in the east Kootenays


Species-at-risk spatial response to large scale
Mountain Pine Beetle infestation:

Modeling woodland caribou habitat selection within mature lodgepole pine at multiple stages of MPB attack


Predator-prey dynamics in working landscapes:

White-tailed deer habitat selection and movement response to predators and anthropogenic disturbance on the periphery of range expansion

Field Work

These are some of the skills I have developed while working on various research and conservation projects
  • Large mammal capture & collaring
  • Aerial ungulate surveys
  • Camera trap array set-up & maintenance
  • Kill site visits, scat sampling, track ID
  • North America bird ID by sight and sound
  • Breeding bird surveys/nest monitoring
  • 2200 birds of 100 species banded, aged and sexed
  • MOTUS nano tag deployment & station set up​
  • Manual VHF telemetry tracking 
  • Old growth forest tree coring
  • Community engagement

I'm wrangling and collaring deer, and it's awesome

I recently completed my Master's degree and moved to Hinton Alberta (near Jasper) to work for fRI Research's Caribou Program.
Learn what deer trapping is like, and why we're doing it