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Birkhead, Tim.
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Birds -- Evolution.
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Birkhead, Tim.
Birds -- Evolution.
Birds in art -- Miscellanea.
Birds -- Effect of human beings on.
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Birds
and us : a 12,000-year history from cave art to conservation / Tim Birkhead.
by
Birkhead, Tim.
Princeton University Press, 2022.
Call #:
598.009 B619b
Subjects
Birds
--
Evolution
.
Birds
in art
--
Miscellanea.
Birds
--
Effect of human beings on.
ISBN:
9780691239927 (hc.)
Description:
xx, 441 p. : ill. (some color), col. map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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. Spanning continents and millennia, '
Birds
and Us' chronicles the beginnings of a written history of
birds
in ancient Greece and Rome, the obsession with falconry in the Middle Ages, and the development of ornithological science. Moving to the twentieth century, the book tells the story of the emergence of birdwatching and the field study of
birds
, and how they triggered an extraordinary flowering of knowledge and empathy for
birds
, eventually leading to today's massive worldwide interest in
birds
--
and the realization of the urgent need to save them. Weaving in stories from Birkhead's life as scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is an unforgettable account of how
birds
have shaped us, and how we have shaped them."--Jacket.
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