T. R. Birkhead

Tim Birkhead is an award winning author, scientist and university lecturer. He is Professor of Zoology in the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is known for his research on sperm competition in birds, for his effective undergraduate teaching (voted UK Biosciences Teacher of the Year in 2013) and for his popular science books. His book ‘The Red Canary’ - the story of the first genetically engineered animal (first published in 2003, re-issued in 2014) won the Consul Cremer Prize. ‘The Wisdom of Birds’ (2008) won Best Bird Book of 2008, and ‘Bird Sense: What it’s like to be a Bird’ (2012) was voted best natural history book of the year by both the Guardian and Independent. His most recent book is: ‘Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin’ (with J Wimpenny and R Montgomerie). He was awarded the 2015 Eisenmann Medal by the Linnaean Society of New York for excellence in ornithology and encouragement of the amateur.