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Birkhead has combined his enthusiasm for research with a passion for undergraduate teaching. He has taught courses on ecology, evolution, statistics, birds, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science. His teaching has been recognised by four awards, including a
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His recent research is on the adaptive significance of egg shape in birds, including the common guillemot whose pyriform egg has long been thought to allow it to either spin-like- a-top or roll-in-an-arc to prevent it rolling off the cliff ledge. However, there is no evidence for either of these
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National Park known as Biology of Spermatozoa (BoS). Delegates are from a diverse range of backgrounds and include clinicians, reproductive physiologists, andrologists, theoreticians and evolutionary biologists. The format and interdisciplinary nature of the meeting was successful in terms of
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ideas. Instead, Birkhead and colleagues have identified the main advantage of a pyriform shape: stability. The pyriform shape makes the egg inherently more stable, especially on the sloping surfaces on which guillemots commonly breed.
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in birds. He provided some of the first evidence of: cryptic female choice in birds; strategic sperm allocation, and he also provided the first estimates of the quantitative genetics of sperm traits in birds.
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Starting in 1992 and continuing until 2015 (when he handed over to a steering group) Birkhead organised (with Professor Harry Moore) a small (~60) biennial meeting on reproductive biology in the
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in birds and provided the first evidence for morphological sperm selection in the female reproductive tract. His long term study of the population biology of common guillemots on the island of
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was rated best natural history book of 2012 by the Independent and Guardian Newspapers, and was awarded a Best Bird Book of 2012 prize by British Birds and the
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by Tim Birkhead. 2016. Bloomsbury, New York, NY, USA. xvi + 304 pp., 15 color and 3 black-and-white photographs. $ 27 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1632863690"
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Birkhead's research on promiscuity in birds redefined the mating systems of birds. Focusing initially on the adaptive significance of male
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Elected Honorary Member of the (Deutschen Ornitholgen-Gesellschaft German Ornithological Society), 2017
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Winner of the Zoological Society of London’s Award for Communicating Zoology to a general audience for
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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which makes the concept of post-copulatory sexual selection accessible to the non-specialist.
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Founders’ Medal of the Society for the Study of the History of Natural History (SHNH), 2016.
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ISIHighlyCited.com - Designated Highly Cited Researcher Plant & Animal Science, 2004
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Prize for increasing public understanding of evolutionary biology, Evolution Society, 2017.
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Senate Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching, University of Sheffield, 2007.
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The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
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Virtuoso by Nature: the Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672)
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Birkhead, Tim R.; Thompson, Jamie E.; Montgomerie, Robert (1 October 2018).
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described it as ‘Magnificent: science without any high falutin’ technology’.
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lecture on the history of ornithology has been viewed over 100,000 times.
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and numerous literary festivals including Ways with Words (Sheffield) and
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Over the course of his career, Birkhead has received a number of awards:
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He has given numerous public lectures, including at Café Scientique, the
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Winner of the Society for Biology, Bioscience Teacher of the Year, 2013.
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Birkhead, Tim R.; Thompson, Jamie E.; Biggins, John D. (1 July 2017).
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President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour 2013-16
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President, International Society for Behavioural Ecology (1996-1998)
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The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal
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off Wales has run since 1972, and is currently in need of support.
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ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) Medal in 2012
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Elected Honorary Member of the Linnaean Society of New York, 2011
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Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation
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Insight Investment Science Book Prize (2016), and winner of the
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Sperm Competition in Birds: Evolutionary Causes and Consequences.
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The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a Bird's Egg
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exchanging ideas, techniques and establishing collaborations.
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Birkhead, T. R., Hosken, D. & Pitnick, S. (eds) (2009).
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Vice-president of the British Trust for Ornithology in 2012
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The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg
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Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
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Spallazani Medal, Biology of Spermatozoa community, 2015.
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Elliot Coues Medal, American Ornithologists Union in 2011
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Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
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Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (Uria aalge)
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Animal & Plant Sciences ‘Teacher of the Year’, 2009.
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The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
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Between 2002 and 2010 Birkhead had a monthly column in
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Nettleship, D. N. & Birkhead, T. R. (eds) (1985)
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He was subsequently awarded a 1711: 1648: 1625: 1599: 1527: 1505: 1486: 1461: 1435: 1374: 1348: 1324: 1275: 1250: 1198: 1172: 1054:Mark Cocker (17 October 2008). 752:Elected Honorary Member of the 705:Medal for best reference book: 509:Royal Society Winton Book Prize 507:, and was short-listed for the 437:; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, 299: 2101:Alumni of Newcastle University 1123: 1066: 1047: 1027: 1008: 324:Academic Press. pp. 280. 1: 832: 795:British Ornithologists' Union 754:American Ornithologists Union 505:British Trust for Ornithology 447:British Trust for Ornithology 362:Birkhead, T. R. (ed) (2016). 2096:Fellows of the Royal Society 960:"Professor Tim Birkhead FRS" 945:UK public library membership 818:National Teaching Fellowship 785:Linnaean Society of New York 632:He has featured on numerous 581:National Teaching Fellowship 531:Zoological Society of London 252:supervised by E.K. 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A&C Black. 2010. 233:in 1972, followed by a 225:Birkhead was awarded a 215:University of Sheffield 202:Timothy Robert Birkhead 126:University of Sheffield 42:Timothy Robert Birkhead 2017:Dale Brian Wigley 1994:Peter St George-Hyslop 1658:The early birdwatchers 1215:Journal of Ornithology 1091:10.1098/rspb.2015.1682 1005: 805:The Most Perfect Thing 664:The Most Perfect Thing 636:programmes, including 607:Times Higher Education 587:Biology of Spermatozoa 969: 783:Eisenmann Medal, the 525:short-listed for the 16:British ornithologist 2034:K. Frank Austen 2005:David Tollervey 1420:10.1642/auk-17-112.1 1365:Living Bird Magazine 966:on 23 November 2015. 425:. Bloomsbury. 2008. 308:The Atlantic Alcidae 239:University of Oxford 235:Doctor of Philosophy 231:Newcastle University 82:University of Oxford 76:Newcastle University 2060:F. Sherwood Rowland 1989:David Henry Solomon 1984:Nancy Rothwell 1957:John F. B. Mitchell 1880:David B. A. Epstein 1301:10.1642/AUK-18-38.1 1148:2014Natur.514..405B 791:Godman-Salvin Medal 747:The Wisdom of Birds 668:Attenborough’s Eggs 662:in 2018. His book ‘ 649:The Life Scientific 613:He has written for 264:Research and career 189:/staff-and-students 99:Godman-Salvin Medal 2081:British zoologists 2055:Michele Parrinello 1927:Andrew D. Hamilton 1824:Malcolm Brown 1262:britishbirds.co.uk 1181:"Read Tim's story" 1085:(1818): 20151682. 1056:"Flights of fancy" 891:uk.bl.ethos.449886 693:Awards and honours 672:David Attenborough 600:Media and Outreach 535:David Attenborough 274:female promiscuity 2068: 2067: 2049:Elliot Meyerowitz 1979:Carol V. Robinson 1875:Richard M. 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Index

FRS
Leeds
Newcastle University
University of Oxford
Godman-Salvin Medal
National Teaching Fellowship
University of Sheffield
Thesis
Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (
Uria aalge)
Doctoral advisor
Chris Perrins
www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/birkhead
FRS
ornithologist
University of Sheffield
Bachelor's degree
Newcastle University
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Oxford
breeding
guillemots Uria aalge
Chris Perrins
Doctor of Science
promiscuity
female promiscuity
sperm competition
polyspermy
Skomer
ISBN

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