I am a conservation biologist and evolutionary ecologist with a focus on birds, especially parrots. Increasingly, I am directing my research at the landscape level as I seek to identify the broad-scale processes shaping conservation problems. However I maintain a strong interest in individual based social behaviour, cognition and tool use. This approach allows me to combine my strong background in behavioural ecology with my more recent passion for conservation biology. I am co-founder of the Difficult Bird Research Group (DBRG) at the ANU.

Professor Robert Heinsohn

Fenner School of Environment and Society
ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
Frank Fenner Building 141
​Canberra, ACT 2601
​Australia

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(+61) 2 612 52100

On the cover

Our latest paper is the focus of the Journal of Animal Ecology in their April issue.

Video abstract of our latest paper

Population genetics of the Swift Parrot in Tasmania

ANU Public Policy Award

Prof Robert Heinsohn, Dr Dejan Stojanovic - for raising awareness of the declining numbers of the swift parrot