Andrew Cockburn (ornithologist)

Andrew Cockburn FAA is an Australian evolutionary biologist who has been based at the Australian National University in Canberra since 1983. He has worked and published extensively on the breeding behaviour of antechinuses and superb fairy-wrens, and more generally on the biology of marsupials and cooperative breeding in birds. His work on fairy-wrens is based around a detailed long-term study of their curious mating and social system at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Emeritus Professor

Andrew Cockburn

FAA
Born13 September 1954
NationalityAustralian
Alma materMonash University
Known forEvolution of bird mating and parental care systems. Evolution of mammal and bird life histories.
Scientific career
Fieldszoology, evolutionary ecology, animal behaviour
Theses
Doctoral advisorAnthony K. Lee
Notable studentsRaoul Mulder, Penny Olsen

In 2001 Cockburn was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[3] and awarded the Centenary Medal.[4] Since 2014 he has been Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Natural History in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University.[5][6] He had been awarded the Gottschalk Medal of the Academy in 1988, and the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1987. 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.[7] and in 2010 he was awarded the Ellis Troughton Medal and Fellowship of the Australian Mammal Society for his research on Australian mammals. In 2012 he gave the Tinbergen Lecture of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.

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. Professor Andrew Cockburn, Fellows elected in 2001, www.science.org.au
  4. Centenary Medal, 1 January 2001, It's an Honour. "For service to Australian society and science in botany and zoology".
  5. Emeritus Professor Andrew Cockburn, anu.edu.au
  6. Andrew Cockburn biography, anu.edu.au
  7. Penny Olsen (2004). D.L. Serventy Medal 2004: Citation. Andrew Cockburn. Emu 104: 297-298.

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