ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which this
research was conducted. This study was funded by the Commonwealth
Department of Environment and Climate Change, BirdLife Australia and
generous donors to the Difficult Bird Research Group. Sequencing
received in-kind support from the NCRIS funded BioPlatforms Threatened
Species Initiative. Research was conducted under Tasmanian Scientific
licence #TFA23010, ANU animal ethics permit #A2021/33 and ABBBS
banding authorities #3192 & #2833. Computational resources were
provided by Amazon Web Services and RONIN; the Australian Biocommons
supported FGENESH++ service; the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of
Western Australia; Galaxy Australia, a service provided by the
Australian Biocommons and its partners; and the University of Sydney’s
High Performance Computing facility Artemis. We thank Mark Carey, the
King Island Conservation Action Plan working group, Sustainable Timber
Tasmania, the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service & H. Camm
& family for logistical support. KAF is supported by the Australian
Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and
Protein Science (CE200100012).