Tim Birkhead. Bloomsbury, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63286-369-0
British ornithologist Birkhead (Bird Sense: The Wisdom of Birds) uses an inaccurate TV segment that he saw on the eggs of guillemots (the name for several species of seabird) as a reason to reinvestigate the hows and whys of guillemot eggs while...
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Tim Birkhead. Bloomsbury, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4088-7848-4
Although surprisingly little documentation exists about Francis Willughby (1635–1672), Birkhead (The Most Perfect Sense), a science professor at the University of Sheffield, has managed to piece together a compulsively readable portrait of the...
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Tim Birkhead, Author, T. R. Birkhead, Author Harvard University Press $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-674-00445-0
When mammals have sex, many sperm race to fertilize one egg. Does chance alone decide which sperm succeeds? What happens when sperm from different males chase the same egg or eggs? How are things different for the male and female gametes of squid,...
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Tim Birkhead. Walker, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-7966-3
With clear gusto for his subject, animal behavior expert Birkhead (The Wisdom of Birds) breaks down what it might be like to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell as a bird. Tracing the insights, clever experiments, and surprise contributions that have
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Tim Birkhead. Princeton Univ, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-691-23992-7
Ornithologist Birkhead (Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird) delivers a master class in this fascinating look at humans’ evolving relationship with birds, tracking over the course of 12 millennia as birds went from being the objects of art and...
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Tim Birkhead. Bloomsbury Sigma, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-3994-1574-3
In this fascinating study, Birkhead (Birds and Us), an evolutionary biology professor emeritus at the University of Sheffield, delves into the history of the great auk, a flightless seabird that went extinct in 1844. Extrapolating how the birds...
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