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Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award 2007 Winners

Last year's crop of successful applicants were:

Research Awards

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

Graeme Armstrong, Charles Darwin Uni, Environmental factors affecting the seed availability for granivorous birds in tropical savannas of Australia

Christa Beckman, Sydney Uni, Reciprocal interactions and impacts of cane toads (Bufo marinus) and native bird populations in Australia

Rohan Bilney, Deakin, Potential competition between Powerful and Sooty Owls in East Gippsland, Australia

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

Bronwyn Isaac, Deakin, Spatial ecology of top-order predators using innovative GPS technologies

Brian Hawkins, Monash, Landscape-scale spatial and temporal patterns of avian habitat use in subtropical NSW

Anna Kearns, Uni of Qld, The phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Australo-Papuan Butcherbirds (Cracticus spp.): Phylogeography and population genetics of the Black Butcherbird (C. quoyi).

Michelle Landstrom, ANU, The coevolutionary arms race between Pallid Cuckoo and its hosts

Sarah Lovibond, Uni of Tas, Shorebird census and coastal values mapping on King and Flinders Island, Tasmania

Kim Maute, Uni Of Wollongong, Conservation management of granivorous birds in tropical savannah

Nicki Munro, ANU, The habitat value of ecological revegetation and woodlot plantings to birds in Gippsland, Victoria

John Rawsthorne, CSU, Constraints on the Dispersal of Parasitic Plants: The Role of Frugivorous Birds

Danielle Shanahan, Uni of Qld, Understanding the impact of fragmentation on rainforest bird populations

Sarah Tassell, Uni of Tas, The impact of the Superb Lyrebird on Tasmanian forest ecosystems

Nicole White, Murdoch Uni, DNA profiling to enhance Conservation, Management, Protection and Identification of the endangered Carnaby’s Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) and other cockatoo species in Australia

Conference Awards

Christa Beckman, AOC-Perth, Reciprocal interactions and impacts of cane toads (Bufo marinus) and native bird populations in Australia

Mark Carey, AOC-Perth, Effects of investigator on hatching success of Short-tailed Shearwater

Carol Erwin, ESA & AOC-Perth, Climate change effects on pelagic foraging seabirds

Lyndal Horne, 6th International Penguin Conference, Geographical variability in little penguin metabolism

Adam Leavesly, AOC-Perth, Fire and mulga birds

Mylene Mariette, Evolution-NZ, Habitat choice and breeding behaviour in wild Zebra finch

Tiana Preston, 6th International Penguin Conference, Effects of seabed disturbance on Little Penguin foraging

John Rawsthorne, AOC-Perth, Role of frugivorous birds in distribution of parasitic plants

Debbie Saunders, Bird Migration – Spain, Migratory movements of endangered Swift Parrot

Itzel Zamora-Vilchis, Evolution-NZ, Behavioural traits and immune genes in wet tropics avifauna

 

 Full list of previous Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award recipients 2000 - 2005 (43kb)