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Biography
Timothy Harrison is an English professor of ornithology at the British Trust for Ornithology, University of Birmingham.
Early life
Tim Harrison had graduated with the Bachelor of Science in zoology from the Cardiff University in 2004 during which he also had a training at the Llysdinam Field Centre. In 2005 prior to starting on his Ph.D. he worked at the Archbold Biological Station, University of Memphis where he studied reproductive ecology of Aphelocoma. Two months later Tim had joined the Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory in Kent and then became a member of the British Trust for Ornithology where he worked in collaboration with Stuart Bearhop and Gill Robb of Queen's University Belfast, the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust and Jim Reynolds and Graham Martin of the Ringing Group at the University of Birmingham.
Career
In 2010 Timothy Harrison had studied common blackbird, song thrush and mistle thrush in East Anglia. Between 2010 and 2011 Timothy Harrison has led the team that suggested that supplementing blue and great tits' food during the breeding season may cause the onset of laying and shortened incubation periods but can also have its benefits such as better survival rate.