Journal Articles
MacColl, Christopher, Leseberg, Nicholas P., Seaton, Richard, Murphy, Stephen A. and Watson, James E.M. (2023). Rapid and recent range collapse of Australia’s Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus. Emu - Austral Ornithology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2023.2172735
Webster, Patrick T.D., Leseberg, Nicholas P., Murphy, Stephen A., Joseph, Leo and Watson, James E. M. (2022). A review of specimens of Buff-breasted Button-quail Turnix olivii suggests serious concern for its conservation outlook. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 122 (2), 121-130. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2022.2090962
Leseberg, Nicholas P., Venables, William N., Murphy, Stephen A., Jackett, Nigel A. and Watson, James E. M. (2022). Accounting for both automated recording unit detection space and signal recognition performance in acoustic surveys: A protocol applied to the cryptic and critically endangered Night Parrot ( Pezoporus occidentalis ). Austral Ecology, 47 (2), 440-455. doi: 10.1111/aec.13128
Webster, Patrick T.D., Murphy, Stephen A., Leseberg, Nicholas P. and Watson, James E.M. (2022). Retaining the ‘art’: Painted Button-quail Turnix varius do make platelets in north-eastern Queensland. Australian Field Ornithology, 39, 206-210. doi: 10.20938/afo39206210
Webster, Patrick, Leseberg, Nicholas, Murphy, Stephen and Watson, James (2022). New records of Painted Button-quail Turnix varius in North Queensland suggest a distribution through southern and central Cape York Peninsula. Australian Field Ornithology, 39, 199-205. doi: 10.20938/afo39199205
Leseberg, Nicholas P., McAllan, Ian A. W., Murphy, Stephen A., Burbidge, Allan H., Joseph, Leo, Parker, Shane A., Jackett, Nigel A., Fuller, Richard A. and Watson, James E. M. (2021). Using anecdotal reports to clarify the distribution and status of a near mythical species: Australia’s Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). Emu - Austral Ornithology, 121 (3), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2021.1927760
Webster, Patrick T.D., Jackett, Nigel A., Swann, George, Leseberg, Nicholas P., Murphy, Stephen and Watson, James E. (2021). Descriptions of the vocalisations of the Chestnut-backed Button-quail Turnix castanotus. Australian Field Ornithology, 38, 137-144. doi: 10.20938/afo38137144
Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Keirnan, Aubrey R., Janetzki, Heather, Mardon, Karine, Murphy, Stephen, Leseberg, Nicholas P. and Weisbecker, Vera (2020). The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 9258, 9258. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65156-0
Stoetzel, Henry J., Leseberg, Nicholas P., Murphy, Stephen A., Andrew, Margaret E., Plant, Kayler J., Harrington, Graham N. and Watson, James E.M. (2020). Modelling the habitat of the endangered Carpentarian Grasswren (Amytornis dorotheae): The importance of spatio-temporal habitat availability in a fire prone landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation, 24 e01341, e01341. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01341
Leseberg, Nicholas P., Venables, William N., Murphy, Stephen A. and Watson, James E. M. (2020). Using intrinsic and contextual information associated with automated signal detections to improve call recognizer performance: A case study using the cryptic and critically endangered Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11 (11), 1520-1530. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13475
Leseberg, Nicholas P., Murphy, Stephen A., Jackett, Nigel A., Webster, Patrick T. D., MacColl, Christopher, Stoetzel, Henry J. and Watson, James E. M. (2020). Recognising the impact of sight record assessment on the scientific record and a species’ conservation status. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 120 (2), 181-183. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2020.1774395
Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Auerbach, Nancy, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Dickman, Chris R., Fisher, Diana O., Grantham, Hedley, Holden, Matthew H., Lavery, Tyrone H., Leseberg, Nicholas P., O’Connor, James, Roberson, Leslie, Smyth, Anita K., Stone, Zoe, Tulloch, Vivitskaia, Turak, Eren, Watson, James E. M. and Wardle, Glenda M. (2019). Reply to ‘Consider species specialism when publishing datasets’ and ‘Decision trees for data publishing may exacerbate conservation conflict’. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3 (3), 320-321. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0805-6
Leseberg, Nicholas, Murphy, Stephen, Jackett, Nigel, Greatwich, Bruce, Brown, Jamie, Hamilton, Neil, Joseph, Leo and Watson, James (2019). Descriptions of known vocalisations of the Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis. Australian Field Ornithology, 36, 79-88. doi: 10.20938/afo36079088
Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Auerbach, Nancy, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Bayraktarov, Elisa, Butt, Nathalie, Dickman, Chris R., Ehmke, Glenn, Fisher, Diana O., Grantham, Hedley, Holden, Matthew H., Lavery, Tyrone H., Leseberg, Nicholas P., Nicholls, Miles, O'Connor, James, Roberson, Leslie, Smyth, Anita K., Stone, Zoe, Tulloch, Vivitskaia, Turak, Eren, Wardle, Glenda M. and Watson, James E. M. (2018). A decision tree for assessing the risks and benefits of publishing biodiversity data. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 (8), 1209-1217. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0608-1
Murphy, Stephen A., Austin, Jeremy J., Murphy, Rachel K., Silcock, Jennifer, Joseph, Leo, Garnett, Stephen T., Leseberg, Nicholas P., Watson, James E.M. and Burbidge, Allan H. (2017). Observations on breeding Night Parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) in western Queensland. Emu-Austral Ornithology, 117 (2), 107-113. doi: 10.1080/01584197.2017.1292404
Thesis
Leseberg, Nicholas (2022). Conservation biogeography of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). PhD Thesis, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/618d2da