Person

Christidis, Leslie (Les) (1959 - )

Born
30 May 1959
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Les Christidis, senior Curator at Museum Victoria, is the author of numerous scientific publications on the evolution and systematics of birds.

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Born 30 May 1959. Educated University of Melbourne (BSc Hons 1980) and Australian National University (PhD 1985). Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology 1985-86, working on the evolutionary history of Australia's birds; QEII Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University 1987; senior Curator, Museum of Victoria 1988-date. Research interests include conservation genetics and evolutionary studies using DNA from museum specimens. Wrote The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories (1994, with Walter Boles, q.v.).

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2005
Award - W. Roy Wheeler Medallion, Bird Observers' Club

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See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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