Biographie de Nicholas-B Davies
NICK DAVIES is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
He was born on the Lancashire coast, where nightjars and pink-footed geese inspired his passion for bird watching from an early age. After a first degree at Cambridge, be did his doctorate at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University, studying the territorial behaviour of Pied Wagtails. He then returned to the Zoology Department at Cambridge, where he did his famous work on the variable mating system of the Dunnock. For the past fifteen years he bas studied the interactions between the Common Cuckoo and its hosts, and his students have worked on other brood parasites, including cuckoos in Africa, cowbirds in South America, and the Moorhen, a species that parasitises its own kind.
His previous books include Dunnock Behaviour and Social Evolution and (with John Krebs) An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his awards include the Medal of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour and a Cambridge University Teaching Prize.
Born in Salford in 1959, DAVID QUINN bas been drawing and painting for as long as be can remember. After gaining a BA First Class Honours degree in Graphic Design at Manchester Polytechnic in 1982, he became a freelance illustrator of wildlife subjects. In 1987 be won the 'British Birds' Bird Illustrator of the Year Award. His work bas featured subsequently in very many publications dealing with a wide variety of bird identification issues, and in more Academic studies concerning the biology, behaviour and ecology of birds. Aside from his illustration work, he tries to devote as much time as possible to his paintings for exhibition and private sale, He lives in Cheshire with his wife and son.