Craig Symes

Dr Craig Symes has a broad ornithological interest, with a focus, until recently, on Afrotropical birds.

As an Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, much of his research focused on bird communities, bird movements and migrations, bird diets and community ecology, parrot biology and conservation, urban bird communities, and bird-plant mutualisms focused on pollination in the genus Aloe. He has been a science teacher in Rotorua since 2019.