Career
Mike Cullen began his academic career by studying mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, but later switched to zoology, spending time at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology while investigating the ecology of marsh tits. In 1976 he moved to Australia, to Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria. There he was involved in an investigation of Abbott"s booby on Christmas Island which was threatened by phosphate mining.
He served on the Field Investigation Committee of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) for which he organised the Rolling Bird Survey project
However, he is best known for long-term studies of the little penguin at Phillip Island and in Portuguese Phillip Bay at Street Kilda, in collaboration with Pauline Reilly and others
