Rose Thorogood
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Bird Behavioural Ecology Group
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 3EJ
UNITED KINGDOM
Rose Thorogood
Rose Thorogood
I’ve been interested in hihi since my first behavioural ecology field trip as an undergraduate at the University of Auckland in 2001. I completed my MSc on Hihi in 2004 (with Dianne Brunton, now Massey University), where I investigated how supplementary food affected the breeding biology and behaviour of hihi on Tiritiri. Since then, I have worked closely with John first as his research assistant, and now as his PhD student (at the University of Cambridge, jointly supervised by Rebecca Kilner). My interests lie in understanding how parents and their offspring interact, how nestlings signal information during begging, and how this is mediated by their diet and environment. As well as my research, I actively contribute to the management of the monitoring programme of hihi on Tiritiri, and am a member of the Department of Conservation Hihi Recovery Group.
