Witherby Memorial Lecture
Witherby Memorial Lecture | |
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Awarded for | Ornithology |
Sponsored by | British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) |
First awarded | 1968 |
Website | www |
The Witherby Memorial Lecture is an academic lectureship awarded by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) annually since 1968.[1] The memorial lecture is in memorandum of Harry Forbes Witherby, a former owner of Witherby, who previously published ornithological books.
Lectures[]
Year | Lecturer | Subject |
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1968 | Arthur Landsborough Thomson | The sub-species concept |
1969 | David Lack | The number of bird species on islands |
1970 | H. N. Southern | Tawny Owls |
1971 | E. M. Nicholson | Geograms |
1972 | Peter Scott | Species extinction in birds |
1973 | Beryl Patricia Hall | Speciation and specialisation |
1974 | Desmond Nethersole-Thompson | Greenshanks |
1975 | Ringing as an ecological tool | |
1976 | The ages of birds – adolescence and senility | |
1977 | David Snow | The relationships between the African and European avifaunas |
1979 | Stanley Cramp | Ornithology and bird conservation |
1980 | Derek Ratcliffe | The Peregrine falcon |
1981 | The biology of the Redshank | |
1982 | Janet Kear | Some thoughts on eggs |
1983 | Chris Perrins | A study of the Great tit |
1984 | Patrick Bateson | Imprinting in young birds |
1985 | Ian Newton | Individual performance in Sparrowhawks |
1986 | The Bee-eaters | |
1987 | Fred Cooke | Natural selection in Snow Geese |
1988 | Migration strategies of shorebirds | |
1989 | John Krebs, Baron Krebs | Food hoarding in tits |
1991 | The importance of scale in the study of bird populations | |
1992 | Dick Potts | Is there a future for farmland birds? |
1993 | Some new developments in bird migration research | |
1994 | John Lawton | All change? Numbers and range in the field and in the mind |
1995 | Thinking, practice and people in bird population ecology | |
1996 | Wildlife and water: partnerships for effective action | |
1997 | Individuality in a densely colonial seabird: the Common Guillemot | |
1998 | Albatrosses, Fisheries and Futures | |
1999 | Birding and DNA | |
2000 | David Harper | The public and private lives of Robins |
2001 | The study of bird migration: where to go? | |
2002 | Nicholas Barry Davies | Cuckoo versus host |
2003 | Swallows – life in an uncertain world | |
2004 | Pat Monaghan | Bad beginnings and untimely ends: Life history trade-offs in birds |
2005 | Science and Conservation | |
2006 | Theunis Piersma | What is it like to be a Knot? Towards a cognitive ecology of shorebirds |
2007 | Case studies with predatory birds | |
2008 | Peter Grant | Evolution of Darwin's finches |
2009 | Birds and rings across the Mediterranean: the role of ringing for science and for conservation in Italy | |
2010 | Tim Birkhead | Sperm and Eggs: Promiscuity in birds |
2011 | Birth, death and bird conservation | |
2012 | Sarah Wanless | An Exaltation of Auks |
2013 | Graham Martin | Through Birds' Eyes |
2014 | Birds in an urbanising world | |
2015 | Migration in space and time | |
2016 | Ben Sheldon | Coping with a variable world: plasticity and social learning in Great tit |
2017 | Stuart Bearhop | The ups and downs of an extreme migrant |
2018 | Jane Reid | Ringing, Birding, Migration Ecology & Evolution |
2019 | Bob Furness | What have the ringers ever done for us? How amateurs make British ornithology great. |
2020 | Caren Cooper | Flock Together: Innovations Migrating Across Citizen Science |
References[]
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