Supporting students of ornithology and ecology is a high priority for Birds Australia, as they will make a major contribution to the future of Australia's native birds.

Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award 2008 Recipients

Supporting students of ornithology and ecology is a high priority for Birds Australia, because they will make a major contribution to the future of Australian birds. This year's crop of successful applicants were:

Research Awards

Alex Anderson, James Cook University – Rainforest biodiversity and climate change: interactions between climate, primary productivity and birds in Northern Australian Rainforests.

Daniela Binder, University of NSW – Chick development and foraging ecology of the Providence Petrel

Steven Camilleri, Monash University – Biodiversity modelling using the 2nd Atlas of Australian Birds to evaluate patterns of land use in the Murray-Darling Basin

Anastasia Dalziell, ANU – The function of mimicry in the Superb Lyrebird

Anna Kearns, University of Queesland – Fine scale phylogeographic structure of Black (Cracticus quoyi) and Grey (C. torquatus) Butcherbirds inferred from mtDNA and cross-amplified Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) microsatellites

Nicole Schumann, Deakin University Burwood – Trophic relationships of Bass Strait seabirds

Jolene Scoble, Adelaide University – Identifying historic and contemporary refugia for arid avifauna threatened by climate change across ecotones of intact and relictual mallee vegetation in South Australia

Anja Skroblin, ANU – Phylogeny and conservation biology of the Purple-crowned Fairy-wren

Sarah Tassle, UTAS – The impact of the Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) on Tasmania forest ecosystems

Michael Todd, UTAS – Ecology of Tasmanian Masked Owl

Conference Awards

Christa Beckman, University of Sydney – Can native wading birds control numbers of invasive, toxic Cane Toads (Bufo marinus) in Australia?

Simon Cherriman, Curtain University – The Wedge-Tailed Eagle near Perth - findings of an honours project 2007

 Full list of previous Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award Recipients 2000 - 2007 (66kb)