| 1968 |
Sir Landsborough Thompson |
The sub-species concept |
| 1969 |
Dr D Lack |
The number of bird species on islands |
| 1970 |
H N Southern |
Tawny Owls |
| 1971 |
Dr E M Nicholson |
Geograms |
| 1972 |
Sir Peter Scott |
Species extinction in birds |
| 1973 |
Mrs P Hall |
Speciation and specialisation |
| 1974 |
D Nethersole-Thompson |
Greenshanks |
| 1975 |
Dr J C Coulson |
Ringing as an ecological tool |
| 1976 |
Professor G M Dunnet |
The ages of birds – adolescence and senility |
| 1977 |
Dr D W Snow |
The relationships between the African and European avifaunas |
| 1978 |
Ill-health prevented the lecture being given. |
| 1979 |
S Cramp |
Ornithology and bird conservation |
| 1980 |
Dr D A Ratcliffe |
The Peregrine |
| 1981 |
Professor W G Hale |
The biology of the Redshank |
| 1982 |
Dr J Kear |
Some thoughts on eggs |
| 1983 |
Dr C M Perrins |
A study of the Great Tit |
| 1984 |
Professor P P G Bateson |
Imprinting in young birds |
| 1985 |
Dr I Newton |
Individual performance in Sparrowhawks |
| 1986 |
Dr C H Fry |
The Bee-eaters |
| 1987 |
Dr F Cooke |
Natural selection in Snow Geese |
| 1988 |
Professor P R Evans |
Migration strategies of shorebirds |
| 1989 |
Professor J R Krebs |
Food hoarding in tits |
| 1990 |
No lecture took place due to severe adverse weather
conditions. |
| 1991 |
Dr J D Goss-Custard |
The importance of scale in the study of bird populations |
| 1992 |
Dr G R Potts |
Is there a future for farmland birds? |
| 1993 |
Professor Dr P Berthold |
Some new developments in bird migration research |
| 1994 |
Professor J H Lawton |
All change? Numbers and range in the field and in the
mind |
| 1995 |
Dr A Watson |
Thinking, practice and people in bird population ecology |
| 1996 |
Dr M Owen |
Wildlife and water: partnerships for effective action |
| 1997 |
Dr M P Harris |
Individuality in a densely colonial seabird: the Common
Guillemot |
| 1998 |
Dr J P Croxall |
Albatrosses, Fisheries and Futures |
| 1999 |
Professor D T Parkin |
Birding and DNA |
| 2000 |
Dr D G C Harper |
The public and private lives of Robins |
| 2001 |
Professor Dr F Bairlein |
The study of bird migration: where to go? |
| 2002 |
Professor N B Davies |
Cuckoo versus host |
| 2003 |
Professor D M Bryant |
Swallows – life in an uncertain world |
| 2004 |
Professor P Monaghan |
Bad beginnings and untimely ends! Life history trade-offs
in birds |
| 2005 |
Professor W J Sutherland |
Science and Conservation |
| 2006 |
Professor T Piersma |
What is it like to be a Knot? Towards a cognitive ecology
of shorebirds |
| 2007 |
Dr M Marquiss |
Case studies with predatory birds |
