Bird

Australia is home to more than 200 nationally protected seabird species. The Foundation has funded 15 bird projects including little penguin, Australasian gannet and mutton birds.

Research projects

Projects
Year Funded
Organisation
Researchers
Microbial ecology of natural and artificial penguin burrows: implications for reproductive success, penguin health and conservation management
2015
Phillip Island Nature Parks
DANN, Peter, WOEHLER, Eric , DEWAR, Meagan
Impacts of plastic pollutants on seabirds: the flesh-footed shearwater as a case study
2015
RMIT University
OSBORN, Mark, LAVERS, Jennifer & STOJKOVIC, Slobodanka
Parasitism and the immune system in Little penguins (Eudyptula minor)
2014
UNSW
SINCLAIR, J
Conservation genetics of Antarctic ice-dependent penguins and seals - population connectivity and past interglacial refugia
2013
UTAS
MILLER, Karen
Genetic distinctiveness of Providence Petrel colonies: past, present, and future
2011
UTAS/UA/NSW ECCW
BURRIDGE, Chris, AUSTIN, J & PRIDDEL, D

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