Paul Radley, Ph.D.

Paul has been interested in birds since a young age. He pursued his passion for feathered creatures in a professional capacity and now has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of avian ecology and conservation biology. He has worked on numerous avian research projects, many involving threatened and endangered species throughout the U.S., Pacific, and West Africa – and in his free time, continued to chase birds even farther afield. Paul has spent the past 17 years involved in conservation based avian research projects in Micronesia and Hawai‘i and received a Ph.D. in avian ecology from Edith Cowan University in the greater Perth area of Western Australia. As a wildlife biologist with the Division of Fish and Wildlife, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, he developed and implemented a conservation translocation program to safeguard the native and endemic forest birds of the Northern Mariana Islands from the threat of the invasive brown tree snake previously introduced to nearby Guam. He will bring this experience to MFBRP and use it to plan a conservation translocation of ‘ākohekohe with the intent to similarly safeguard this species from extinction via avian malaria.