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As of 1 January 2012, Birds Australia has merged with BOCA to become BirdLife Australia. The new BirdLife Australia website will go live in early February, and until then the current Birds Australia site will continue to be available.

At BirdLife Australia we are dedicated to achieving outstanding conservation results for our native birds and their habitats. With our specialised knowledge and the commitment of an Australia-wide network of members, volunteers and supporters, we are creating a bright future for Australia’s birds. Look out for our new website from February 2012 at birdlife.org.au.
SLBRA Recipients

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.

Swift Parrot site © Debbie SaundersStuart 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

Male & Female Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens in pandanus © Anja SkroblinNicole 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

Cane Toad metamorph © Christa BeckmanConference 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)
 
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