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Alma mater
  
Newcastle University

Name
  
Tim Birkhead

Notable awards
  
Royal Society


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Born
  
20 February 1950 (age 74) (
1950-02-20
)

Institutions
  
Newcastle UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of Sheffield

Thesis
  
Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (Uria aalge) (1976)

Education
  
Newcastle University (1972), University of Oxford

Books
  
The Red Canary, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be, The Wisdom of Birds: An, The Magpies: The Ecol, Great Auk Islands; a Field Biol

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Timothy Robert Birkhead FRS (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist, and professor of behaviour and evolution at the University of Sheffield.

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Education

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Birkhead was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from Newcastle University in 1972, followed by 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

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Birkhead's research falls into three main areas:

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  • Post-copulatory sexual selection, mainly in birds
  • Population biology of birds.
  • The history of science, and of reproduction and ornithology in particular.

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    Birkhead has made important contributions to the field of behavioural ecology – the study of how animal behaviour evolves under the influence of environmental pressures. He also studies the competitive actions of male birds' sperm. He showed that extra-pair copulation – where the offspring raised by a pair are the result of the female mating with an outsider male – is common amongst birds. Tim also demonstrated the existence of 'guarding techniques', which are carried out by the male bird in a pair. In studies of the zebra finch, he revealed that the sperm of the last male to mate with a female took precedence for fertilising her eggs.

    His 2016 book on birds' eggs, The Most Perfect Thing, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.

    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

    Tim Birkhead Wikipedia
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