Witherby Memorial Lecture
Award
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.[2]
Lectures
Year | Lecturer | Subject |
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1968 | Arthur Landsborough Thomson | The sub-species concept[3] |
1969 | David Lack | The number of bird species on islands |
1970 | H. N. Southern | Tawny Owls[4] |
1971 | E. M. Nicholson | Geograms[5] |
1972 | Peter Scott | Species extinction in birds |
1973 | Beryl Patricia Hall | Speciation and specialisation[6] |
1974 | Desmond Nethersole-Thompson | Greenshanks |
1975 | J. C. Coulson | Ringing as an ecological tool |
1976 | Geoge Dunnet | The ages of birds – adolescence and senility |
1977 | David Snow | The relationships between the African and European avifaunas[7] |
1979 | Stanley Cramp | Ornithology and bird conservation |
1980 | Derek Ratcliffe | The Peregrine falcon |
1981 | W. G. Hale | 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 | C. H. Fry | The Bee-eaters |
1987 | Fred Cooke | Natural selection in Snow Geese |
1988 | P. R. Evans | Migration strategies of shorebirds |
1989 | John Krebs, Baron Krebs | Food hoarding in tits |
1991 | J. D. Goss-Custard | The importance of scale in the study of bird populations |
1992 | Dick Potts | Is there a future for farmland birds? |
1993 | Peter Berthold | Some new developments in bird migration research |
1994 | John Lawton | All change? Numbers and range in the field and in the mind[8] |
1995 | A. Watson | Thinking, practice and people in bird population ecology |
1996 | M. Owen | Wildlife and water: partnerships for effective action |
1997 | M. P. Harris | Individuality in a densely colonial seabird: the Common Guillemot |
1998 | J. P Croxall | Albatrosses, Fisheries and Futures |
1999 | D. T. Parkin | Birding and DNA[9] |
2000 | David Harper | The public and private lives of Robins |
2001 | Franz Bairlein | The study of bird migration: where to go? |
2002 | Nicholas Barry Davies | Cuckoo versus host |
2003 | David Murray Bryant | Swallows – life in an uncertain world |
2004 | Pat Monaghan | Bad beginnings and untimely ends: Life history trade-offs in birds |
2005 | W. J. Sutherland | Science and Conservation |
2006 | Theunis Piersma | What is it like to be a Knot? Towards a cognitive ecology of shorebirds |
2007 | Mick Marquiss | Case studies with predatory birds |
2008 | Peter Grant | Evolution of Darwin's finches |
2009 | Fernando Spina | 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 | Rhys Green | Birth, death and bird conservation |
2012 | Sarah Wanless | An Exaltation of Auks |
2013 | Graham Martin | Through Birds' Eyes |
2014 | Kevin Gaston | Birds in an urbanising world |
2015 | Jenny Gill [Wikidata] | 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 |
2021 | Claire Spottiswoode | Coevolution as an engine of biodiversity: insights from African birds |
2022 | Professor Peter Marra | Studying Birds in the Context of the Full Annual Cycle[10] |
References
- ^ "Witherby Memorial Lectures - BTO - British Trust for Ornithology". www.bto.org. 8 December 2010.
- ^ Hickling, Ronald (30 October 2010). Enjoying Ornithology. A&C Black. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-3842-7.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Bird Study. 16 (1): 1–13. 1969. doi:10.1080/00063656909476210. ISSN 0006-3657.
- ^ Martin, Jeff (29 September 2022). The Tawny Owl. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4729-4356-9.
- ^ "Witherby Memorial Lecture, British Trust for Ornithology, 4 Dec 1971, 1971". Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Beryl Patricia Hall, 1917–2010". The Auk. 129 (1): 179–179. 2012. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.129.1.179.
- ^ Snow, D. W. (1978). "Relationships between the European and African Avifaunas". Bird Study. 25 (3): 134–148. doi:10.1080/00063657809476588. ISSN 0006-3657.
- ^ Lawton, J.H. (1996). "Population abundances, geographic ranges and conservation: 1994 Witherby Lecture". Bird Study. 43 (1): 3–19. doi:10.1080/00063659609460991. ISSN 0006-3657.
- ^ Parkin, David T. (2003). "Birding and DNA: species for the new millennium". Bird Study. 50 (3): 223–242. doi:10.1080/00063650309461316. ISSN 0006-3657.
- ^ "BTO Conference 2022: Session 5 The Witherby Lecture - Studying birds in the context of the full annual cycle with Dr Peter Marra". BTO. Retrieved 9 July 2024.