Jiro Kikkawa

He subsequently spent three years at the University of Otago in New Zealand where he began what was to become an enduring focus of research, the behavioural ecology of Silvereyes and other species of Zosterops.

He studied his BSc at Tokyo University of Fisheries graduating with a degree in marine biology in 1950.

Serventy Medal for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region.

As well as numerous published scientific papers, he authored and edited several books.

In the past grants were given to a researcher whose work best supports and advances bird conservation.