Witherby Memorial Lecture

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]

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

Lectures

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Year Lecturer Subject
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

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  1. ^ "Witherby Memorial Lectures - BTO - British Trust for Ornithology". www.bto.org. 8 December 2010.
  2. ^ Hickling, Ronald (30 October 2010). Enjoying Ornithology. A&C Black. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-3842-7.
  3. ^ "Editorial Board". Bird Study. 16 (1): 1–13. 1969. doi:10.1080/00063656909476210. ISSN 0006-3657.
  4. ^ Martin, Jeff (29 September 2022). The Tawny Owl. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4729-4356-9.
  5. ^ "Witherby Memorial Lecture, British Trust for Ornithology, 4 Dec 1971, 1971". Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  6. ^ "In Memoriam: Beryl Patricia Hall, 1917–2010". The Auk. 129 (1): 179–179. 2012. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.129.1.179.
  7. ^ Snow, D. W. (1978). "Relationships between the European and African Avifaunas". Bird Study. 25 (3): 134–148. doi:10.1080/00063657809476588. ISSN 0006-3657.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "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.