Andrew Cockburn (ornithologist)

Professor
Andrew Cockburn
Residence Australia
Nationality Australian
Fields ornithology, evolutionary ecology
Alma mater Monash University
Theses
Doctoral students Raoul Mulder
Known for Evolution of bird mating systems

Andrew Cockburn is an Australian ornithologist based at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has worked, and published extensively, on the breeding behaviour of white-winged choughs and superb fairy-wrens. In 2004 he was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal which recognises excellence in published work on birds in the Australasian region.[3]

References

  1. Andrew Cockburn (1975) The ecology of the genus pseudomys in Victorian heath communities Honours thesis, Monash University.
  2. Andrew Cockburn (1979) The ecology of Pseudomys spp. in south-eastern Australia. PhD thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
  3. Penny Olsen (2004). D.L. Serventy Medal 2004: Citation. Andrew Cockburn. Emu 104: 297-298.


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