Graham Martin is Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK. He has spent his career researching the senses of birds, mainly their vision and hearing, and has always attempted to understand these from the perspective of how visual information helps birds to carry out different tasks in different environments. He has travelled widely and pondered diverse sensory challenges that birds face in different habitats, from mudflats and murky waters, to forests, deserts and caves. Recently he has focused on how understanding bird senses can help to reduce the very high levels of bird deaths that are caused by human artefacts; particularly wind turbines, power lines, and gill nets.

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