Person

Woodall, Peter Frederick (1951 - )

Born
2 July 1951
Harare, Zimbabwe
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Peter Woodall is a Senior Lecturer, School of Veterinary Science and Department of Anatomy, University of Queensland. His ornithological interests include population numbers and breeding biology and their environmental regulation, working on species like waterbirds, Red Bishops and Noisy Pittas.

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Chronology

1970 - 1973
Career position - Honorary Keeper of Ornithology, Queen Victoria Museum, Harare, Zimbabwe
1972
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of London
1974
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Rhodesia
1974 - 1977
Career position - Casual tutor and demonstrator, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
1978 - ?
Career position - Senior Tutor (later Senior Lecturer), Department of Veterinary Science and School of Anatomy, University of Queensland
1978
Life event - Migrated to Queensland
1978
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Oxford
1980 - 1981
Career position - Vice-President, Queensland Ornithological Society
1982 - 1983
Career position - President, Queensland Ornithological Society
1986 - 1988
Career position - Assistant Editor, The Emu
1987 - 1988
Career position - Vice-President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1988 - 1990
Career position - Editor, Emu
1989
Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1996 -
Career position - Editor, The Queensland Naturalist
2017
Award - Queensland Natural History Award, Queensland Naturalists' Club

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Journals

  • Cribb, Alan B.; Cribb, Joan W.; and Woodall, Peter F., eds., 'Queensland Naturalists', The Queensland Naturalist, 44 (1-3), 2006, 2-72 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Anon, 'The Queensland Natural History Award 2017 [awarded to Peter Woodall]', Queensland Naturalist, 55 (1/3) (2017), 1-2. Details
  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn

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