Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for The Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal and The Red Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
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Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Bird Sense
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going …
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€15.30
Tim Birkhead: Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confin …
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€69.39
Tim Birkhead: Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
The story of the author’s research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the wor …
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€69.35
Tim Birkhead: Bird Sense
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going …
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€15.42
Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Most Perfect Thing
‘I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird’s egg’ Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862How are eggs of different …
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€13.36
Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Red Canary
Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red.The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: th …
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€15.43
Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Most Perfect Thing
A bird’s egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule–an external womb–and one of natural selection’s most wonderful creations. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2 …
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€13.27
Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Red Canary
The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, …
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€15.40
Birkhead Tim Birkhead: Wonderful Mr Willughby
‘Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds’ Literary Review Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the mids …
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€11.29
Tim Birkhead: Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confin …
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€69.46
Tim Birkhead: Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
The story of the author’s research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour.The Arctic is one of the worl …
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€69.46
