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.

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

The drumming cockatoo

Tool assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music