Researching Andrew Cockburn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 3821 people with the Cockburn surname? In that year Cockburn was ranked number 1113 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Andrew means "Manly" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Andrew Cockburn on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Andrew Cockburn and the Cockburn Family Tree
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Cockburn Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Andrew Cockburn
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.
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 in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University. 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. 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.
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