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Mattea Taylor

​Mattea is a PhD student at the University of Newcastle researching threats to migratory shorebirds in the Hunter and Port Stephens estuaries, specifically focussing on disturbance and metal pollution. Her fieldwork includes trudging through mud to watch bird behaviour and analysing metals in their feathers and food items. After completing a double degree in a Bachelor of Arts and Science (Journalism and Environment & Sustainability), Mattea studied yellow-footed rock-wallabies in western Queensland for her honours in Environmental Science. While these nimble macropods were cute, the trail camera footage piqued her interest in bird-watching. This intensified when she later worked at the Broome Bird Observatory and discovered the wonderful little grey migratory marvels that are shorebirds. By chance, or destiny, the opportunity sprang up to study this very same bird group on the other side of Australia, in Newcastle, where she has found a home in the Conservation Science Research Group.

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