Person

Gosbell, Ken

Occupation
Civil engineer and Ornithologist

Summary

Ken Gosbell, having retired as a civil engineer in 1995, became immersed in the study and conservation of migratory shorebirds. He is a member of the Victorian Wader Study Group and since 1997 has served on the committee of the Australian Wader Studies Group. In addition he managed the joint banding database of these groups. Gosbell was chairman of the Shorebird Working Group of the Flyway Partnership dedicated to protection of migratory pathways from eastern Asia to Australasia, and published on the birds using this pathway. He was one of the first researchers to recognise the importance of geolocators for the remote study of breeding colonies.

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Chronology

1995 -
Career position - Member, Victorian Wader Study Group
1995
Life event - Retired
1997 -
Career position - Committee Member, Australian Wader Studies Group
2006 - 2010
Career position - Chairman, Australasian Wader Studies Group
2017
Award - John N. Hobbs Medal, Birdlife Australia
2020
Award - Clive Minton Medallion, Victorian Wader Study Group

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Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Hobbs Medal Citation: Ken Gosbell', Emu, 117 (3) (2017), 301-2. Details
  • Atkinson, Steve, 'Minton Medal citation: Ken Gosbell', VWSG bulletin, 44 (2021), 82-4. Details
  • Gosbell, Ken, 'Obituary Ken Rogers (1939 - 2021)', Stilt, 76 (2021), 7-8. Details
  • Gosbell, Ken, 'A personal reflection on 15 years of the VWSG geolocator program', VWGS bulletin, 47 (2024), 33-4. Details
  • Minton, C. [and others], 'Geolocator studies of Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres and Greater sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii in the East Asian-Australian flyway reveal widely different migration strategies', Wader Study Group bulletin 118:87-96, 118 (2011), 87-96. Details
  • Minton, C. [and others], 'Geolocator studies of Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres and Greater sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii in the East Asian-Australian flyway reveal widely different migration strategies', Wader Study Group bulletin 118:87-96, 118 (2011), 87-96. Details
  • Minton, Clive [and others], 'New insights from geolocators deployed on waders in Australia', Wader Study Group bulletin, 120 (1) (2013), 37-46. Details
  • Rogers, Danny, 'J. N. Hobbs Medal 2017: citation - Ken Gosbell', Australian field ornithology, 34 (2017), 80-1, http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo34080081. Details
  • Zhao, Meijuan [and others], 'Body size shapes inter-specific migratory behaviour: evidence from individual tracks of long-distance migratory shorebirds', Journal of avian biology, 49 (1) (2017), 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01570. Details

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