Team Members

A/Prof Dr Petra Sumasgutner

Principal investigator

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Silvia Damini

PhD candidate

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Josué Arteaga Torres

PhD candidate

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Lucas Landolfi

Field assistant

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Jana Göpfert

Lab assistant

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Prof Sonia Kleindorfer

Director, Konrad Lorenz Research Center

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Dr Linde Morawetz

AGES, Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit

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Dr Sally Hofmeyr

Administrator, FitzPatrick Institue of African Ornithology

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Shane Sumasgutner, PhD

co-I & Research technician

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Matthias Schmidt

PhD candidate

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Theresa Ranieri

PhD candidate

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Sarah Guttenberger

Field assistant

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Santhosh Sangeeth Sailas

Visiting researcher (AKTION/Erasmus+)

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A/Prof Dr Susie Cunningham

Director, FitzPatrick Institue of African Ornithology

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Prof Colleen Downs

UKZN, SARChI Research Chair in ecosystem health and biodiversity

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Varalika Jain

PhD candidate

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Johannes Ploderer

PhD candidate

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Monica Sageder

Field assistant

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Peter Surmon

Field assistant

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Nala

Conservation dog

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PD Dr Anita Gamauf (1962-2018)

Curator of birds, Natural History Museum Vienna

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Dr Celiwe Ngcamphalala

Lecturer, University of Cape Town

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