The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to its southern May 2025 Public Lecture by guest speakers Dr Sally Bryant AM and Dr Eric Woehler OAM. All RST members, their guests, and the public are welcome.
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Where: Geology Lecture Theatre, UTAS, Sandy Bay Campus on Sunday 4 May, 2025.
Time: 3.30pm for pre-lecture drinks, 4pm for the lecture.
Globally, few animal species are more visible or cherished than birds and Tasmania is internationally recognised for its high endemicity and as a refugia for rare species. However, few people realise that for a small island Tasmania has an alarming number of threatened bird species showing rapid trajectories of widespread decreases. Tasmania’s threatened birds occur in a variety of habitats from mountain to coast, but many are habitat specialists reliant on forest or sandy beaches. In this joint lecture, you will hear why Tasmania’s bird fauna is at risk, why these declines are happening and how, collectively, we can reverse these before it’s too late.
Dr. Sally Bryant AM is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy and Adjunct Lecturer at UTas. As a wildlife scientist, Sally has undertaken foundational research on many of Tasmania’s threatened species especially birds and has published prolifically on the conservation importance of island ecosystems. For decades Sally has pioneered recovery efforts for the Nationally Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote and is currently involved with developing acoustic monitoring relying on her expert field skills in call detection.
