Jodie has been a member of the Conservation Breeding Team at WWT since 2017, helping Tanya and Nicky with the day-to-day care of the spoon-billed sandpipers at WWT Slimbridge. She has an avicultural background working in zoos and private collections where she gained valuable breeding, incubation and rearing skills. Jodie first joined the headstarting team in 2018 to assist with the incubation, rearing and release of spoon-billed sandpipers in Russia.