11 Facts About Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker was born on 1959 and is a British author and naturalist.

Mark Cocker has written a regular 'Country Diary' column in the Guardian since 1988 and a wildlife column in the international subscribers' edition, the Guardian Weekly from 1996 to 2002.

Mark Cocker was brought up and educated in Buxton, Derbyshire, near to the Peak District National Park.

Mark Cocker was educated at Buxton College, and studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia, where he became immersed in East Anglia's nationally important wildlife landscapes, including the North Norfolk coast, Breckland and the Broads.

An active environmentalist, Mark Cocker worked for the RSPB, English Nature and BirdLife International.

Mark Cocker has travelled to over 40 countries spanning 5 continents in pursuit of wildlife.

Mark Cocker was a scholar of Himalayan languages and of Mahayana Buddhism.

Mark Cocker has unearthed in his diaries patent elaborations, exaggerations and falsehoods and there is evidence too that in his scientific career Meinertzhagen indulged in practices that would be considered highly fraudulent.

Loneliness and Time was followed by an indictment of European exploitation and destruction of indigenous people, Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold, which Mark Cocker considered his most important book.

Mark Cocker suggests that birds are the miner's canary for the natural world.

Mark Cocker is a co-founder of the Oriental Bird Club, a founding council member of the African Bird Club, a former council member of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society and President.