Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation and marvel at her long

and marvel at her long migration with her family from the top of the world to the bottom and back again

and song writing

But their extinction in 1844 wasn't the end of the great auk story

The Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species

moving and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring

Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation and marvel at her long'Birds and Us wings its way through 12,000 years of our species' engagement with the avian world. Birkhead tells it all with delightful gusto, plaiting personal encounters with challenging historical research and bewitching scientific rigor' Tim Dee 'Thought provoking at every turn, this inspiring, shocking, wonder filled exploration of our relationship with birds from earliest times delivers a sobering challenge to us living with birds today'