Seabirds of Western Australia

Video | Updated 7 years ago

Ron Johnstone
Curator of Ornithology, Terrestrial Zoology

Seabirds are great bio-indicators of the marine environment from the equator to the poles. The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean covering 20% of the Earth's surface. Over the past 40 years there have been dynamic changes in the distributions, status and abundance of many of the seabirds occurring in Western Australia and the eastern Indian Ocean region including Indonesia, Christmas and Cocos-Keeling Islands, the Timor Sea, the Southern Ocean and the sub-Antarctic.

Join Ron Johnstone and John Darnell as they provide an overview of our sense of place in this region, and look at some of the historical changes in the birdlife including the invasion southwards of many tropical species, and also the impacts of climate change and humans on our marine avifauna.

This lecture was recorded at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on 9 July 2010.
This video recording was made possible with the support of Chevron Australia.