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] 2023 No lecture 2024 Dr Norman Ratcliffe Ashmole’s halo and Hutchinson’s hypervolume