Dr Ross Crates
Fenner School of Environment and Society
ANU College of Science
Dr Ross Crates is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Difficult Bird Research Group at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society.
Dr Crates has broad interests in ecology, environment and conservation, with a focus on birds.
His research topics include threatened species’ monitoring, loss of song culture in critically endangered regent honeyeaters, managing noisy miners for woodland bird conservation and conservation genetics of the King Island scrubtit and brown thornbill.
He works closely with collaborators from BirdLife Australia, state and federal government and Taronga Zoo.
Fields of expertise
Articles
Scientists rescue lost song of the critically endangered regent honeyeater
Wild regent honeyeater’s song (audio supplied). Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Taronga Conservation Society Australia have…
Century-old clues reveal hidden threat to Australian songbird
A hidden threat facing one of Australia’s most iconic birds has been uncovered in a new study led…
Captive breeding impacts chances of survival in the wild
Animals bred in captivity can experience significant changes to their bodies, behaviour and health, which affects their chances…