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Christian Cooper

1963–

United States

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Christian Cooper (born 1963) is an American television host, writer and editor. He hosted National Geographic's Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Non-Daily in 2024. Cooper first gained cultural notoriety in 2020 after a false police report was made by a white dogwalker who went viral for her erratic behavior while calling the police on him birdwatching in New York City's Central Park, known as the Central Park birdwatching incident.

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