Tim Birkhead teaches animal behavior and the history of science at the University of Sheffield. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London and the author of several books, including Bird Sense, The Wisdom of Birds, and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology, which won the McColvin Medal. The Red Canary, first published in the United States in 2003 as A Brand-New Bird, won the Consul Cremer Prize. Birkhead lives in Sheffield, England.