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Birds and Us A 12,000-Year History From Cave Art to Conservation
Author: Tim Birkhead
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 497
Format: PDF
File size: 10 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2022
Number of pages: 497
Format: PDF
File size: 10 MB
Language: ENG
From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans. Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy?and from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today’s fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.