Tim Birkhead

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
• Tim Birkhead at TED