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Boom and Bust wins Whitley Medal
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN: 9780643096066.
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, edited by Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn and Leo Joseph, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation's most prestigious award for zoological publication. The editors received the Whitley Medal and Certificates on behalf of all the contributors at a special Whitley Awards ceremony at the Australian Museum in Sydney on the evening of Friday 18 September.
In Boom and Bust the authors draw on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped to understand birds and their behaviour in this driest of continents.
Named after Gilbert Whitley, an eminent Australian ichthyologist, the Whitley Medal is the highest ranked of the Whitley Awards presented by the Society and is reserved for work of outstanding quality that makes a landmark contribution to zoological knowledge.