Projects per year
Personal profile
Research expertise
Wouter Courtens has been working as an ornithologist in the seabird team of the Institute for Nature and Forest Research (INBO) since 2003. This team studies the occurrence of seabirds at sea and the influence of human activities (such as wind turbines, oil pollution and plastics) and food availability on seabird populations. The research also includes the monitoring of coastal breeding birds (such as gulls and terns) and of the population dynamics, food ecology and habitat use of these species. Initially these were mainly Belgian projects, but in the meantime a lot of research is being done in the Netherlands as well. Wouter also has extensive expertise in breeding bird monitoring, including long-term projects around meadow, marsh and reed birds.
Thematic List
- Species and biotopes
Policy
- Birds Directive
- protected Flemish nature
- special areas of conservation
- Natura 2000
- conservation goals
Geographic List
- Belgium
- Zeeland
- Europe
- West Flanders
Technological
- identification
- fieldwork (observations and sampling)
- statistics and modelling
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MONELIA - Monitoring seabirds on the Elia energy island (EVINBO)
Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)
1/01/24 → 30/12/28
Project: Evinbo
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Flanders Ecosystem Accounting (FLEA)
Van Reeth, W. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), Alaerts, K. (Cooperator), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), De Keersmaeker, L. (Cooperator), De Saeger, S. (Cooperator), De Vos, B. (Cooperator), Dochy, O. (Cooperator), Dumortier, M. (Cooperator), Heremans, S. (Cooperator), Jacobs, S. (Cooperator), Lettens, S. (Cooperator), Leyman, A. (Cooperator), Leyssen, A. (Cooperator), Maebe, K. (Cooperator), Michels, H. (Cooperator), Onkelinx, T. (Cooperator), Oosterlynck, P. (Cooperator), Packet, J. (Cooperator), Petersen, F. (Cooperator), Peymen, J. (Cooperator), Provoost, S. (Cooperator), Spanhove, T. (Cooperator), Stevens, M. (Cooperator), Thomaes, A. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Gossum, P. (Cooperator), Van Landuyt, W. (Cooperator), Vandekerkhove, K. (Cooperator), Vanden Borre, J. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator), Vanhellemont, M. (Cooperator), Vught, I. (Cooperator) & Wils, C. (Cooperator)
23/11/23 → 20/07/26
Project: own initiative (position paper)
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PhD - Rise and demise of a marine top predator - Population dynamics and feeding ecology of the Sandwich Tern.
Courtens, W. (Project leader)
1/03/23 → 30/01/28
Project: PhD
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Ecological advice and monitoring coastal breeding birds Zeebrugge-Heist (EVINBO)
Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)
1/03/23 → 1/03/25
Project: Evinbo
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TOPGULL
Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)
31/03/22 → 31/03/31
Project: coöperation agreement
Research output
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2024: Een topjaar voor sterns in Zeebrugge
Stienen, E., Courtens, W. & Matheve, H., 19-Sept-2024Research output: Other contribution › Online publication - Web publication
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Combining video and GPS-tracking to study the spatial foraging distribution of a single-prey loading seabird
Fijn, R., Courtens, W., Engels, B. W. R., van Loon, E. & Shamoun‐Baranes, J., 23-Jul-2024, In: Avian Research. 15, 100196.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Evaluation of tag attachment techniques for plunge-diving terns.
Fijn, R., van Bemmelen, R., Collier, M., Courtens, W., van Loon, E., Poot, M. & Shamoun‐Baranes, J., Jul-2024, In: Ibis. 166, 3, p. 1003-1022Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza causes mass mortality in Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis breeding colonies across north-western Europe
Knief, U., Courtens, W., Stienen, E., Fijn, R. & Leopold, M., 2-Feb-2024, In: Bird Conservation International. 34Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza in Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis : impact on population size and demography
Courtens, W., Stienen, E. & Knief, U., Sept-2024. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper/Powerpoint/Abstract
Datasets
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Bird tracking - GPS tracking of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast
Stienen, E. (Creator), Desmet, P. (Data manager), Aelterman, B. (Contributor), Courtens, W. (Contributor), Feys, S. (Contributor), Vanermen, N. (Contributor), Verstraete, H. (Contributor) & Van De Walle, M. (Contributor), Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, 18-Jun-2014
DOI: 10.15468/02omly, http://dataset.inbo.be/bird-tracking-gull-occurrences
Dataset
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Photos and measurements of otoliths from fish caught in the southern part of the North Sea
Verstraete, H. (Creator), Courtens, W. (Creator), Daelemans, R. (Creator), Van De Walle, M. (Creator), Vanermen, N. (Creator), Desmet, P. (Creator) & Stienen, E. (Creator), Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, 29-Oct-2020
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