Tim Birkhead

Tim Birkhead
Born	28 February 1950[1] Leeds
Residence	Sheffield
Institutions	Newcastle University University of Oxford University of Sheffield
Alma mater	Newcastle University
Thesis	Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (Uria aalge) (1976)
Notable students	Ben Hatchwell, Tom Pizzari, Ben Sheldon, Simone Immler, Charlie Cornwallis, Isabelle Charmantier, Nicola Hemmings
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society
Website www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/birkhead

Tim Birkhead FRS (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist, and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield.^[2]

Education

He earned a Bachelor of Science from Newcastle University in 1972, a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Oxford in 1976 on the Breeding biology and survival of guillemots Uria aalge and a Doctor of Science from Newcastle in 1989 with thesis titled Sperm competition and the behavioural ecology of birds.

Research

• Birkhead's research^[3] falls into three main areas:
• Post-copulatory sexual selection, mainly in birds^[4]
• Population biology of birds.
• The history of science, and of reproduction and ornithology in particular.

Publications

• Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition. Harvard University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-674-00666-9.
• The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal, Phoenix, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7538-1772-8
• The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology. Bloomsbury. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7475-9256-3.; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7475-9822-0
• The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies. A&C Black. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4081-3777-2.
• Great Auk Islands; a Field Biologist in the Arctic. A & C Black, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4081-3786-4.
• Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-15197-7
• Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4088-2013-1
• "The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a BIrd's Egg", Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4088-5126-5

References

1. "Timothy Robert Birkhead". Debretts. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
2. http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/birkhead
3. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=tim+birkhead Tim Birkhead in Google Scholar
4. Blount, J. D.; Metcalfe, N. B.; Birkhead, T. R.; Surai, P. F. (2003). "Carotenoid Modulation of Immune Function and Sexual Attractiveness in Zebra Finches". Science 300 (5616): 125–127. doi:10.1126/science.1082142. PMID 12677066.

External links

• Mark Cocker (17 October 2008). "Flights of fancy". The Guardian.
• http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_birkhead_the_wisdom_of_birds.html
• thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-birkhead-on-sperm
• http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400029
• Tim Birkhead at TED