Witherby Memorial Lecture
Awarded forOrnithology
Sponsored byBritish Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
First awarded1968
Websitewww.bto.org/about-bto/accounts/witherby-memorial-lectures

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

YearLecturerSubject
1968Arthur Landsborough ThomsonThe sub-species concept
1969David LackThe number of bird species on islands
1970H. N. SouthernTawny Owls
1971E. M. NicholsonGeograms
1972Peter ScottSpecies extinction in birds
1973Beryl Patricia HallSpeciation and specialisation
1974Desmond Nethersole-ThompsonGreenshanks
1975J. C. CoulsonRinging as an ecological tool
1976Geoge DunnetThe ages of birds – adolescence and senility
1977David SnowThe relationships between the African and European avifaunas
1979Stanley CrampOrnithology and bird conservation
1980Derek RatcliffeThe Peregrine falcon
1981W. G. HaleThe biology of the Redshank
1982Janet KearSome thoughts on eggs
1983Chris PerrinsA study of the Great tit
1984Patrick BatesonImprinting in young birds
1985Ian NewtonIndividual performance in Sparrowhawks
1986C. H. FryThe Bee-eaters
1987Fred CookeNatural selection in Snow Geese
1988P. R. EvansMigration strategies of shorebirds
1989John Krebs, Baron KrebsFood hoarding in tits
1991J. D. Goss-CustardThe importance of scale in the study of bird populations
1992Dick PottsIs there a future for farmland birds?
1993Peter BertholdSome new developments in bird migration research
1994John LawtonAll change? Numbers and range in the field and in the mind
1995A. WatsonThinking, practice and people in bird population ecology
1996M. OwenWildlife and water: partnerships for effective action
1997M. P. HarrisIndividuality in a densely colonial seabird: the Common Guillemot
1998J. P CroxallAlbatrosses, Fisheries and Futures
1999D. T. ParkinBirding and DNA
2000David HarperThe public and private lives of Robins
2001Franz BairleinThe study of bird migration: where to go?
2002Nicholas Barry DaviesCuckoo versus host
2003David Murray BryantSwallows – life in an uncertain world
2004Pat MonaghanBad beginnings and untimely ends: Life history trade-offs in birds
2005W. J. SutherlandScience and Conservation
2006Theunis PiersmaWhat is it like to be a Knot? Towards a cognitive ecology of shorebirds
2007Mick MarquissCase studies with predatory birds
2008Peter GrantEvolution of Darwin's finches
2009Fernando SpinaBirds and rings across the Mediterranean: the role of ringing for science and for conservation in Italy
2010Tim BirkheadSperm and Eggs: Promiscuity in birds
2011Rhys GreenBirth, death and bird conservation
2012Sarah WanlessAn Exaltation of Auks
2013 Graham Martin Through Birds' Eyes
2014 Kevin Gaston Birds in an urbanising world
2015 Jenny Gill 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

References

  1. "Witherby Memorial Lectures - BTO - British Trust for Ornithology". www.bto.org. 8 December 2010.
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