Congratulations to Claire Runge, who has won a Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award from BirdLife Australia worth $2,000 to fund her work on understanding the distributions and movements of Australia’s nomadic birds. Claire’s work will determine how we can conserve mobile species that use Australia’s landscapes in dynamic and unpredictable ways. As part of the award, Claire also secured $500 to attend the Ecological Society of Australia conference in Melbourne in December 2012.