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93
Citations
33284
World Ranking
400
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Tim R. Birkhead is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with notable contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, History and Philosophy of Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Paleontology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • Three decades of sperm competition in birds, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Exceptional variation in the appearance of Common Murre eggs reveals their potential as identity signals, 2021, The Auk

Birkhead has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Robert Montgomerie
  • J.E. Thompson
  • Nicola Hemmings
  • Karl Schulze-Hagen
  • Annette L. Fayet

They have published in several recurring venues such as:

  • Archives of Natural History
  • Ibis
  • The Auk
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The American Naturalist

Birkhead has also contributed to book publications through Princeton University Press, including titles like Birds and Us published in 2022.

Tim R. Birkhead was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Sperm competition and sexual selection

    T. R. Birkhead;A. P. Møller

  • Sperm Competition in Birds: Evolutionary Causes and Consequences

    T. R. Birkhead;A. P. Møller

  • The genome of a songbird

    Wesley C. Warren;David F. Clayton;Hans Ellegren;Arthur P. Arnold

  • Sperm competition in birds

    TR Birkhead

  • Postcopulatory sexual selection.

    Timothy R. Birkhead;Tommaso Pizzari

  • Carotenoid modulation of immune function and sexual attractiveness in zebra finches.

    Jonathan D. Blount;Neil B. Metcalfe;Tim R. Birkhead;Peter F. Surai

  • Copulation Behaviour of Birds

    T. R. Birkhead;L. Atkin;A. P. Moller

  • Sperm morphological diversity

    Scott Pitnick;David J. Hosken;Tim R. Birkhead

  • Sexual selection and the temporal separation of reproductive events: sperm storage data from reptiles, birds and mammals

    T. R. Birkhead;A. P. Møller

  • Female feral fowl eject sperm of subdominant males

    T. Pizzari;T. R. Birkhead

  • Sperm mobility determines the outcome of sperm competition in the domestic fowl.

    T. R. Birkhead;J. G. Martinez;T. Burke;D. P. Froman

  • CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE: CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHING FEMALE SPERM CHOICE.

    T. R. Birkhead

  • Extra-pair paternity and intraspecific brood parasitism in wild zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, revealed by DNA fingerprinting

    T. R. Birkhead;T. Burke;R. Zann;F. M. Hunter

  • Sperm biology : an evolutionary perspective

    T. R. Birkhead;David J. Hosken;Scott Pitnick

  • Seabird colony distributions suggest competition for food supplies during the breeding season

    R. W. Furness;T. R. Birkhead

  • Female control of paternity.

    Tim Birkhead;Anders Møller

  • Nestling diet, secondary sexual traits and fitness in the zebra finch

    T. R. Birkhead;F. Fletcher;E. J. Pellatt

  • Sophisticated sperm allocation in male fowl

    Tommaso Pizzari;Tommaso Pizzari;Charles K. Cornwallis;Hanne Løvlie;Sven Jakobsson

  • Why do Females Make it so Difficult for Males to Fertilize their Eggs

    T.R. Birkhead;A.P. Møller;W.J. Sutherland

  • Certainty of paternity covaries with paternal care in birds

    A. P. Møller;T. R. Birkhead

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Tommaso Pizzari
Tommaso Pizzari University of Oxford
Stefan Lüpold
Stefan Lüpold University of Zurich
Robert Montgomerie
Robert Montgomerie Queen's University
Scott Pitnick
Scott Pitnick Syracuse University
David F. Westneat
David F. Westneat University of Kentucky
Ben J. Hatchwell
Ben J. Hatchwell University of Sheffield
Geoff A. Parker
Geoff A. Parker University of Liverpool

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