Get to know one of Australia’s most charming robins. This episode is about the behaviours, calls, habitats and genetics of the Eastern Robin. It’s time to get sciencey!
Lana Austin has been working as a professional ornithologist around the world for many years. To name a few, she has been lucky enough to work with macaws in Peru, Toucans in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and Razorbills on the Isles of Scilly (UK). But in 2019 she decided to return to study to attempt to answer one of life’s biggest questions – are mitonuclear incompatibilities an under-appreciated cause of outbreeding depression? You’ve been wondering yourself, right?! In her free time, Lana moonlights as the President of Earthcare St Kilda, enjoys taking her cats for walks, and doing multi-day hikes.
Links:
Eastern Yellow Robin Project - https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/eyr
Monash University’s Wildlife Genetic Management Group - https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/wildlifegeneticmanagement/home
Weekend Birder Google Map - maps.app.goo.gl/idqxtcxUDmUkDi1Y7
Shout out to our friends at Earthcare St Kilda - earthcarestkilda.org.au
Bird recordings by Marc Anderson, licenced from wildambience.com
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04/30/24 • 18 min
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