Andrew Cockburn (ornithologist)

Andrew Cockburn FAA 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.
In 2001 Cockburn was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) and awarded the Centenary Medal. Since 2014 he has been Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Natural History at the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.