Adam Ringing Wheatear

I am currently based in Cardiff, Wales, where I am completing my PhD on the impacts of climate change on long-distance migratory birds. I gained a BSc in Zoology from Cardiff University in 2001, and an MRes in Primatology from Roehampton University, London, in 2005.

My photographs have been published in a variety of books, newspapers and magazines and I have been a contributor to Alamy Images since 2004. In 2005 I launched earthinfocus.com with two university friends as an online portfolio of our photographic work.

I was highly commended in the prestigious European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition, and won categories in the British Ecological Society's Celebrating Ecology photographic competition in 2008 and 2010.

My love of the natural world has taken me to some wonderful places. I have spent a year in the company of meerkats in the Kalahari, 6 months in the forest in Cambodia watching gibbons and monkeys, a year in Tanzania leading groups of volunteers on biodiversity surveys, 3 months in Madagascar studying ring-tailed lemur behaviour, and many months in Shetland, Senegal and Greenland in pursuit of the wheatear for my PhD research.