Rate My Professor Fay Morland

Morland's academic interests center on reproduction, fertility, life history, ageing, ecology, and evolution, with a particular emphasis on reproductive failure in birds. Her investigations include distinguishing infertility from early embryo mortality in unfertilised eggs, such as in tara iti (Sternula nereis davisae); demographic drivers of reproductive failure in threatened birds based on a decade of data; early-life telomere length as a predictor of life-history strategy and reproductive senescence in wild songbirds; genetic sampling methods for unhatched bird eggs to include the invisible fraction in population studies; effects of distinct macronutrient ratios on offspring survival, growth, and maternal glucose tolerance across mouse reproduction; and frameworks for identifying known and unknown biases in animal behaviour research. Key publications are: 'Why do eggs fail? Causes of hatching failure in threatened populations and consequences for conservation' (2021, cited by 69); 'Early‐life telomere length predicts life‐history strategy and reproductive senescence in a threatened wild songbird' (2023, cited by 11); 'Demographic drivers of reproductive failure in a threatened bird: Insights from a decade of data' (2024, cited by 6); 'Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs' (2023, cited by 5); 'Distinguishing infertility from early embryo mortality in “unfertilised” tara iti (Sternula nereis davisae) eggs' (2026); 'Distinct macronutrient ratios optimize offspring survival, growth, and maternal glucose tolerance across mouse reproduction' (2026); and 'Known and Unknown Biases: A Framework for Contextualising and Identifying Bias in Animal Behaviour Research' (2025).