Prof Timothy Birkhead

Career: Dept of Animal and Plant Sciences Univ of Sheffield: lectr 1976-86, sr lectr 1986-89, reader 1989-92, prof of behavioral ecology 1992-; pres Int Soc for Behavioral Ecology 1996-98; Nuffield research fell 1990-91, Leverhulme research fell 1995-96; Hon DSc Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne 1989; FRS 2004

Books and Publications: Avian Ecology (with C M Perrins, 1983), The Atlantic Alcidae (ed with D N Nettleship, 1985), The Survival Factor (with M E Birkhead, 1989), The Magpies (1991), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology (1991, McColvin Medal), Sperm Competition in Birds (1992), Great Auk Islands (1993), Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection (1998), Promiscuity (2000), The Red Canary (2003, Consul Cremer Prize), The Wisdom of Birds (2008); author of articles in pubns incl Nature and Science