Difficult birds and beyond: broader insights from threatened species monitoring.

What can detailed, species-specific monitoring teach us about threatened species conservation more broadly? In this seminar, Ross will summarise his research on some of Australia's most extinction-prone birds. He will show how the knowledge gained from studying them can be used to answer broader questions in conservation relating to topics such as reintroduction biology, captive breeding. animal culture and pest species management.

About the speaker

Ross is a senior research fellow with the Difficult Bird Research Group at the Fenner School, with broad interests in ecology, conservation and animal behaviour. He graduated with a degree in Ecology at the University of East Anglia which included an exchange year at the University of Wollongong. Ross then worked as a research assistant at the Edward Grey Institute exploring the social ecology of wild birds. He returned to Australia in 2015 to undertake his PhD on the regent honeyeater and has been at ANU ever since. Alongside his ongoing work on regent honeyeaters, he has developed research projects exploring noisy miner management, King Island scrubtit genetic rescue, and other random topics that spark his interest such as megafire and mistletoes.