Kerry-Jayne Wilson


Kerry-Jayne Wilson is a New Zealand biologist and retired lecturer in Ecology at Lincoln University, in the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Work

Wilson worked for over 40 years on different conservation aspects in New Zealand, with a focus on its avifauna. She specialised in the study of seabirds and other birds in Antarctica, Mongolia, Malaysia, Newfoundland, Indonesia and the Cook Islands. She retired in 2009 after teaching ecology at Lincoln University for 23 years.
She is New Zealand committee member of the Australasian Seabird Group, she was vice-president of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand and edited the State of New Zealand Birds Report. She lectured at the University of Göttingen on ecology and wildlife conservation in New Zealand.
In 2012 she was awarded the OSNZ's Robert Falla Memorial Award for her "work... in the field of ornithology and her contributions to the work of the society over many years".

Publications

Wilson published 70 scientific paper and three books. Among her most important works is Flight of the Huia, a book which deals with the issue of species conservation in New Zealand.