Birds and us : a 12,000- year history, from cave art to conservation
Birkhead, Tim2023
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Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves in their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In 'Birds and Us', ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientists, this book is a culmination of a lifetime's research.
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Author:
Birkhead, Tim, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
400 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2022.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241990131 (pbk)
Dewey class:
598
LC class:
QL673
Local class:
598
Language:
English
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BRN:
3254953