Nigel has been involved in threatened species conservation projects since 2002, when he conducted on-ground management activities for the recovery of Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies.

He is now based in Western Australia, where he has focused on a range of threatened fauna monitoring projects, including research of migratory shorebirds in north-west Australia that has led to his participation in studies in China’s Yellow Sea.

Nigel has a particular interest in nocturnal birds. He has worked on threatened owls in western Canada, and in 2017 was part of the team that documented the first verifiable observation of a Night Parrot in Western Australia in over a century. Nigel joined the lab in 2019 and completed his PhD on the Northern Masked Owl of Australia’s tropical woodlands, combining acoustic surveys, diet analysis and genomic data to improve understanding of one of the country’s least-known raptors.

Contact Nigel: n.jackett@uq.edu.au