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Nationality
  
New Zealand

Books
  
Flight of the huia

Employer
  
Lincoln University

Name
  
Kerry-Jayne Wilson

Occupation
  
Biologist


Awards
  
Robert Falla Memorial Award (2012)

Kerry-Jayne Wilson is a New Zealand biologist and Professor Emeritus of Ecology at Lincoln University, in the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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Work

Wilson worked for over 40 years on different conservation aspects in New Zealand, with a focus on its avifauna. She specialised in the study of seabirds in Antarctica, Mongolia, Malaysia, Newfoundland, Indonesia and the Cook Islands. She retired in 2009 after teaching ecology at Lincoln University for 23 years.

She is New Zealand's ambassador to the Australasian Seabird Group, she was vice-president of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ) and edits the State of New Zealand Birds Report. She lectures at the University of Göttingen on ecology and wildlife conservation in New Zealand.

In 2012 she was awarded the OSNZ's Robert Falla Memorial Award for her "work... in the field of ornithology and her contributions to the work of the society over many years".

Publications

Wilson published 60 articles and two books. Among her most important works are Flight of the Huia, a book which deals with the issue of species conservation in New Zealand.

  • —— (2004). Flight of the Huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand's frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-0908812523. 
  • —— (2007). A Checklist to New Zealand Birds, Frogs, Reptiles, Mammals and Butterflies. Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1877257513. 

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    Kerry-Jayne Wilson Wikipedia
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