Lesley Brooker is an Australian ornithologist based in Western Australia following retirement from a career with the CSIRO's Division of Wildlife Research.
There she worked, as a database manager and computer modeller, on developing methodologies for the re-design and restoration of agricultural lands for bird conservation.
Since then, she has collaborated with her husband Michael Brooker in studies on cuckoo evolution, population ecology of fairy-wrens[1] and spatial dynamics of birds in fragmented landscapes.
[3][4] Her work involved research on Wedge-Tailed Eagles, Blue-breasted Fairy wrens[5][6] and ecosystem connectivity.
[7] Booker was also a trip leader for the Western Australian Branch of Birdlife Australia and contributed to the Birds in the Great Western Woodlands, a joint project between BirdLife Australia and The Nature Conservancy [8] Brooker has also contributed to research on paternity of bird families, in Molecular Ecology.