Works by Birkhead, Tim R.

Results: 47

Accurately quantifying the shape of birds' eggs.

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Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2018, v. 8, n. 19, p. 9728, doi. 10.1002/ece3.4412

By:

Biggins, John D.;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Sophisticated sperm allocation in male fowl.

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Nature, 2003, v. 426, n. 6962, p. 70, doi. 10.1038/nature02004

By:

Pizzari, Tommaso;
Cornwallis, Charles K.;
Løvlie, Hanne;
Jakobsson, Sven;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Estimating the mass of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) and its egg.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2025, v. 167, n. 1, p. 237, doi. 10.1111/ibi.13350

By:

Montgomerie, Robert D.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) had two brood patches, not one: confirmation and implications.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2022, v. 164, n. 2, p. 494, doi. 10.1111/ibi.13019

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Fiebig, Jürgen;
Montgomerie, Robert;
Schulze‐Hagen, Karl

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Article

The evolution of egg shape in birds: selection during the incubation period.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2019, v. 161, n. 3, p. 605, doi. 10.1111/ibi.12658

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Biggins, John D.;
Montgomerie, Robert

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Article

The point of a Guillemot's egg.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2017, v. 159, n. 2, p. 255, doi. 10.1111/ibi.12458

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Jackson, Duncan;
Biggins, John D.

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Article

Consistency of passerine embryo development and the use of embryonic staging in studies of hatching failure.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2016, v. 158, n. 1, p. 43, doi. 10.1111/ibi.12336

By:

Hemmings, Nicola;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Hartley, Ian

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Article

Alfred Newton's contribution to ornithology: a conservative quest for facts rather than grand theories Alfred Newton's contribution to ornithology: a conservative quest for facts rather than grand theories.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2012, v. 154, n. 4, p. 887, doi. 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01274.x

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Gallivan, Peter T.

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Article

A non-invasive method for obtaining spermatozoa from birds.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 2005, v. 147, n. 4, p. 827, doi. 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00456.x

By:

IMMLER, SIMONE;
BIRKHEAD, TIM R.

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Article

Prolonged copulation, sperm reserves and sperm competition in the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola.

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Ibis (0019-1019), 1995, v. 137, n. 1, p. 85, doi. 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1995.tb03223.x

By:

SCHULZE-HAGEN, KARL;
LEISLER, BERND;
BIRKHEAD, TIM R.;
DYRCZ, ANDRZEJ

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Article

Allopreening in birds is associated with parental cooperation over offspring care and stable pair bonds across years.

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Behavioral Ecology, 2017, v. 28, n. 4, p. 1142, doi. 10.1093/beheco/arx078

By:

Kenny, Elspeth;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Green, Jonathan P.

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Article

Reflections.

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Behavioral Ecology, 2014, v. 25, n. 2, p. 239, doi. 10.1093/beheco/art123

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Testes size in birds: quality versus quantityâassumptions, errors, and estimates.

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Behavioral Ecology, 2007, v. 18, n. 1, p. 271, doi. 10.1093/beheco/arl076

By:

Sara Calhim;
Tim R. Birkhead

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Article

Geographical variation in sperm morphology in the red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus).

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Evolutionary Ecology, 2011, v. 25, n. 2, p. 373, doi. 10.1007/s10682-010-9410-5

By:

Lüpold, Stefan;
Westneat, David F.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Wooden replicas of great auk eggs created (c.1922) by Stephen James Goodall (1825–1896).

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Archives of Natural History, 2024, v. 51, n. 2, p. 417, doi. 10.3366/anh.2024.0937

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Clugston, David L.;
Holliday, Steve T.;
Montgomerie, Robert D.

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Article

"Der fluglose Alk": Johann Friedrich Naumann's 1844 account of Pinguinus impennis (great auk).

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Archives of Natural History, 2023, v. 50, n. 2, p. 304, doi. 10.3366/anh.2023.0863

By:

Schulze-Hagen, Karl;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

The dispersal of Vivian Vaughan Davies Hewitt's collection of great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs.

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Archives of Natural History, 2023, v. 50, n. 1, p. 191, doi. 10.3366/anh.2023.0837

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Clugston, David L.;
Fuller, Errol

Publication type:

Article

Nikolaas Tinbergen's children's book Kleew (1947): the story of a herring gull.

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Archives of Natural History, 2022, v. 49, n. 2, p. 231, doi. 10.3366/anh.2022.0787

By:

Schulze-Hagen, Karl;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

MASON, Ian J. and PFITZNER, Gilbert H. Passions in ornithology: a century of Australian egg collectors.

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2021

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.

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Book Review

COCKER, Mark and TIPLING, David. Birds and people. Jonathan Cape, London: 2013. Pp 592; illustrated. Price £ 40.00 (hardback). ISBN 9780224081740.

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2014

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.

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Book Review

Copulatory plug displacement and prolonged copulation in the Iberian rock lizard (Lacerta monticola).

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Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 2004, v. 56, n. 3, p. 290, doi. 10.1007/s00265-004-0786-5

By:

Moreira, Pedro L.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Patterns of courtship behavior and ejaculate characteristics in male red-winged blackbirds.

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Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 1998, v. 43, n. 3, p. 161, doi. 10.1007/s002650050477

By:

Westneat, David F.;
McGraw, Lisa A.;
Fraterrigo, Jennifer M.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Fletcher, F.

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Article

All Our Eggs In One Basket: Challenges of High Resolution X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography of Great Auk Pinguinus impennis Eggshell.

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2018

By:

Russell, Douglas G. D.;
Bernucci, Arianna;
Scott-Murray, Amy;
Jackson, Duncan;
Ahmed, Farah;
Garbout, Amin;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Abstract

Preston's universal formula for avian egg shape.

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Ornithology (Oxford University Press), 2022, v. 139, n. 4, p. 1, doi. 10.1093/ornithology/ukac028

By:

Biggins, John D.;
Montgomerie, Robert;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Exceptional variation in the appearance of Common Murre eggs reveals their potential as identity signals.

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Ornithology (Oxford University Press), 2021, v. 138, n. 4, p. 1, doi. 10.1093/ornithology/ukab049

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Cox, Amelia R.;
Montgomerie, Robert D.

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Article

Elaborate vaginas and long phalli: post-copulatory sexual selection in birds.

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Biologist, 2009, v. 56, n. 1, p. 33

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Brennan, Patricia

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Article

Book reviews.

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1999

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.

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Book Review

The pyriform egg of the Common Murre (Uria aalge) is more stable on sloping surfaces.

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Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2018, v. 135, n. 4, p. 1020, doi. 10.1642/AUK-18-38.1

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Thompson, Jamie E.;
Montgomerie, Robert

Publication type:

Article

On the use of large marker panels to estimate inbreeding and relatedness: empirical and simulation studies of a pedigreed zebra finch population typed at 771 SNPs.

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Molecular Ecology, 2010, v. 19, n. 7, p. 1439, doi. 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04554.x

By:

SANTURE, ANNA W.;
STAPLEY, JESSICA;
BALL, ALEXANDER D.;
BIRKHEAD, TIM R.;
BURKE, TERRY;
SLATE, JON

Publication type:

Article

Avian egg collections: museum collection bias driven by shape and size.

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Journal of Avian Biology, 2020, v. 51, n. 8, p. 1, doi. 10.1111/jav.02507

By:

Thompson, Jamie E.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

The population increase of common guillemots Uria aalge on Skomer Island is explained by intrinsic demographic properties.

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Journal of Avian Biology, 2013, v. 44, n. 1, p. 055, doi. 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05742.x

By:

Meade, Jessica;
Hatchwell, Ben J.;
Blanchard, Julia L.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

Independent evolutionary reductions of the phallus in basal birds.

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2008

By:

Brennan, Patricia L. R.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Zyskowski, Kristof;
van der Waag, Jessica;
Prum, Richard O.

Publication type:

Letter

Long‐term multi‐species demographic studies reveal divergent negative impacts of winter storms on seabird survival.

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Journal of Animal Ecology, 2025, v. 94, n. 1, p. 139, doi. 10.1111/1365-2656.14227

By:

Laurenson, Kirsty;
Wood, Matt J.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Priestley, Matthew D. K.;
Sherley, Richard B.;
Fayet, Annette L.;
Guilford, Tim;
Hatchwell, Ben J.;
Votier, Stephen C.

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Article

Sperm speed is associated with sex bias of siblings in a human population.

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Asian Journal of Andrology, 2013, v. 15, n. 1, p. 152, doi. 10.1038/aja.2012.109

By:

Mossman, Jim A;
Slate, Jon;
Birkhead, Tim R;
Moore, Harry D;
Pacey, Allan A

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Article

Subtle Egg‐Shell Membrane Structures in Birds' Eggs.

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Molecular Reproduction & Development, 2019, v. 86, n. 4, p. 353, doi. 10.1002/mrd.23103

By:

Birkhead, Tim R.;
Attard, M.;
Pilastro, A.

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Article

Mitochondrial haplotype does not influence sperm motility in a UK population of men.

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Human Reproduction, 2012, v. 27, n. 3, p. 641, doi. 10.1093/humrep/der438

By:

Mossman, Jim A.;
Slate, Jon;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Moore, Harry D.;
Pacey, Allan A.

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Article

The Anatomy of the bill Tip of Kiwi and Associated Somatosensory Regions of the Brain: Comparisons with Shorebirds.

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PLoS ONE, 2013, v. 8, n. 11, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pone.0080036

By:

Cunningham, Susan J.;
Corfield, Jeremy R.;
Iwaniuk, Andrew N.;
Castro, Isabel;
Alley, Maurice R.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Parsons, Stuart

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Article

Maintenance of Sperm Variation in a Highly Promiscuous Wild Bird.

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PLoS ONE, 2011, v. 6, n. 12, p. 1, doi. 10.1371/journal.pone.0028809

By:

Calhim, Sara;
Double, Michael C.;
Margraf, Nicolas;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Cockburn, Andrew

Publication type:

Article

PRONOUNCED WITHIN-INDIVIDUAL PLASTICITY IN SPERM MORPHOMETRY ACROSS SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS.

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Evolution, 2010, v. 64, n. 6, p. 1634, doi. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00924.x

By:

Immler, Simone;
Pryke, Sarah R.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Griffith, Simon C.

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Article

SPERM COMPETITION SELECTS BEYOND RELATIVE TESTES SIZE IN BIRDS.

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Evolution, 2009, v. 63, n. 2, p. 391, doi. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00571.x

By:

Lüpold, Stefan;
Linz, George M.;
Rivers, James W.;
Westneat, David F.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

INCREASED POSTCOPULATORY SEXUAL SELECTION REDUCES THE INTRAMALE VARIATION IN SPERM DESIGN.

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Evolution, 2008, v. 62, n. 6, p. 1538, doi. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00393.x

By:

Immler, Simone;
Calhim, Sara;
Birkhead, Tim R.

Publication type:

Article

PLASTICITY IN REPRODUCTIVE PHENOTYPES REVEALS STATUS-SPECIFIC CORRELATIONS BETWEEN BEHAVIORAL, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL SEXUAL TRAITS.

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Evolution, 2008, v. 62, n. 5, p. 1149, doi. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00346.x

By:

Cornwallis, Charlie K.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

Publication type:

Article

SOCIAL STATUS AND AVAILABILITY OF FEMALES DETERMINE PATTERNS OF SPERM ALLOCATION IN THE FOWL.

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Evolution, 2006, v. 60, n. 7, p. 1486, doi. 10.1554/06-098.1

By:

Cornwallis, Charlie K.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

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Article

MATERNAL EFFECTS INFLUENCE THE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE ZEBRA FINCH.

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Evolution, 2004, v. 58, n. 11, p. 2574, doi. 10.1554/04-325

By:

Forstmeier, Wolfgang;
Coltman, Dave W.;
Birkhead, Tim R.

Publication type:

Article

Oil pollution and climate have wide-scale impacts on seabird demographics.

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2005

By:

Votier, Stephen C.;
Hatchwell, Ben J.;
Beckerman, Andrew;
McCleery, Robin H.;
Hunter, Fiona M.;
Pellatt, Jayne;
Trinder, Mark;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Coulson, Tim

Publication type:

Letter

Brain Size and Morphology of the Brood-Parasitic and Cerophagous Honeyguides (Aves: Piciformes).

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Brain, Behavior & Evolution, 2013, v. 81, n. 3, p. 170, doi. 10.1159/000348834

By:

Corfield, Jeremy R.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Spottiswoode, Claire N.;
Iwaniuk, andrew N.;
Boogert, Neeltje J.;
Gutiérrez-Ibáñez, Cristian;
Overington, Sarah E.;
Wylie, Douglas R.;
Lefebvre, Louis

Publication type:

Article

A comparison of SNPs and microsatellites as linkage mapping markers: lessons from the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).

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BMC Genomics, 2010, v. 11, p. 218, doi. 10.1186/1471-2164-11-218

By:

Ball, Alexander D.;
Stapley, Jessica;
Dawson, Deborah A.;
Birkhead, Tim R.;
Burke, Terry;
Slate, Jon

Publication type:

Article