Students |
PhD |
| The evolution of song dialects in grey warblers and begging (based at Massey University with A/Prof. Dianne Brunton and Ed Minot) |
| Foraging ecology and individual fitness of Antarctic penguins. |
| Ecology of long-tailed bats in commercial pine forest. |
| Limitations on song learning in zebra finches--phylogeny or ecology? |
| Production, reception, and cognition of vocalisations from North Island Brown Kiwi. |
| Ecology of long-tailed bats in urban and fragmented agricultural landscapes |
| Magnetic orientation by bats. [more] |
| Foraging and population biology of New Zealand native gannets and boobies (with A/Prof. David Raubenheimer) |
| The role of vocalisation behaviour in Westland Petrels (Procellaria westlandica): function beyond se |
| The neuroethological bases of song recognition in zebra finches (Based at the Department of Anatomy with Dr. Fabiana Kubke and A/Prof. Martin Wild) |
| The neuroethology of hearing and communication in weta (with Dr. Fabiana Kubke and A/Prof. Martin Wild, Department of Anatomy). [more] |
| Conservation biology of kakariki across New Zealand (with Dianne Brunton and Ed Minot at Massey University) |
| Conservation ecology of endangered Cook's Petrels. [more] |
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MSc |
| Chemical defense mechanisms in marine vertebrates |
| Neuroethology of anti-predator defense by endemic moths |
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| BSc (Hons) |
Ecology of introduced rosella
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| Pigments and structures of cuckoo-host egg mimicry |
| Mental time travel in zebra finches. |
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| Recent Past Students |
| Dispersal of translocated North Island robins from a mainland island (Based at SGES with Prof Mick Clout). |
Song degradation in a captive-bred island population: the analysis of North Island Kokako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) on Tiritiri Matangi Island. |
| Description, dueting, seasonal variation and individual identification of vocalisations of the Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) |
| Mating systems and sexual dimorphism in Australasian gannets at Cape Kidnappers |
| Experimental Analysis of the Navigation Abilities of New Zealand Long-tailed Bats |
| Vocalisations of North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli). |
| The ecology of ship rates (Rattus rattus) on Ponui Island: implications for North Island brown kiwi |
| Neural and behavioural responses of weta to sounds of predators. |
| Cuckoo recognition in sympatry and allopatry by hosts of a specialist brood parasite. |
| Vocalisations of the Australasian gannet |
| Development of an acoustic identification system for fourteen species of British microchiropteran bat |
| Translocation of short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) to Kapiti Island |
| The structure, function and variation of song in the adult hihi (Notiomystis cincta) |
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