Tim Birkhead

Tim Birkhead
Born	(1950-02-20) February 20, 1950[1]
Institutions	Newcastle University University of Oxford University of Sheffield
Alma mater	Newcastle University
Thesis	Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (Uria aalge) (1976)
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society
Website
Official website

Timothy Rob "Tim" Birkhead FRS (born 20 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. 
• Lives of Birds - A Modern History of Ornithology, 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

References

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

Persondata
Name	Birkhead, Tim
Alternative names	Birkhead, Timothy Robert (full name)
Short description	British zoologist and author
Date of birth	1950-02-20
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death