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Talk about regent honeyeaters tomorrow

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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 04:56:57 +0000


Friday, 7 September at 2 pm

Seminar Room, Frank Fenner Building

Ross Crates (Final Seminar)

Ecology and conservation of the regent honeyeater

 

The wild regent honeyeater population is estimated to be 350-500 individuals. The species' vast range, small population size and nomadic movement patters have hampered attempts to collect ecological data inform conservation action. This talk will discuss: 

- Development of a new monitoring programme to locate breeding birds.

- Evaluation of undetected Allee effects in Australia's threatened birds

- Regent honeyeater contemporary breeding biology

- Targeted suppression of noisy miners at breeding sites

- Population genomics using museum specimens

 

Ross Crates is a member of the Difficult Bird Research Group. He studied ecology with a year in Australia at the University of East Anglia, UK. An exchange year in Wollongong sparked his passion for Australian ecology and conservation. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University using passive transponders to study the social ecology of wild songbirds. He returned to Australia to commence his PhD in 2015.  Ross has broad interests in ecology, conservation and evolutionary biology.

 

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