Mike Weston lectures in Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. He has studied and worked to conserve Australia’s ground-nesting, and especially beach-nesting birds for over two decades, using adaptive management approaches to improve their reproductive success and conservation status. Part of understanding the conservation ecology of a species involves understanding the threats species face, so Mike and his students also study Corvids, dogs and even humans! The basic ecology of these species also represents critical knowledge, and is an area of passionate research interest for Mike.

Ken Rogers studied physics at Kings College London University, and after a brief period as a nuclear physicist, worked in operational research in the UK, Iran, South Korea and Australia. He is an avid birdwatcher and bird ringer, with a particular interest in biometrics and moult.

Danny Rogers is an ornithologist at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research. For the past 15-20 years he has focussed largely on migratory shorebirds, undertaking field studies in north-western and south-eastern Australia and South Korea to investigate how they select their habitat at a variety of spatial scales, and how they respond to change in a threatened flyway. His fascination with moults developed before then, and he worked for a decade on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, with a team that used existing museum collections to put together the first descriptions of the moult cycles of most Australasian bird species.