48 Australian Robins

Learn how to identify Australia’s robins.

This episode is about red and pink-coloured robins, noisy robins, rare robins and birdwatching on the Limestone Coast. Our guest is Dr Hugh Possingham.

Resources

• Hugh on Twitter/X

• Hugh on Instagram

• Hugh on LinkedIn

• Hugh’s Wikipedia entry

• Hugh's research on Google Scholar

• Biodiversity Council

• BirdLife Australia

• Rose Robin recording by Geoffrey Monchaux (XC510778) – licensed from xeno-canto.org

• Southern Scrub Robin recording by Greg McLachlan (XC336504) – licensed from xeno-canto.org

Meet the Guest

Hugh Possingham is currently the co-chief councillor of The Biodiversity Council and Vice-President of BirdLife Australia. He has devoted his life to stopping habitat loss around the world. He completed a PhD in Mathematics and Ecology at Oxford University in the UK and this led to a career in universities in the USA and Australia. He has mainly worked as a university professor and is currently at the University of Queensland. He also served two years as Chief Scientist of Queensland and four years as Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy. Hugh has over 1000 peer-reviewed scientific publications and his list of achievements goes on and on. Amongst all of this, he likes to go birding at Oxley Creek Common in Brisbane.

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