Birds and us: a 12,000-year history from cave art to conservation

Of peculiar interest: Neolithic birds

Inside the catacombs: the birds of ancient Egypt

Talking birds: the beginnings of science in Greece and Rome

Manly pursuits: hunting and conspicuous consumption

Renaissance thinking: the parts of the birds

The new world of science: Francis Willughby and John Ray discover birds

Depending on birds: inconspicuous consumption

The end of God in birds: Darwin and ornithology

A dangerous type of bigamy: killing time

Watching birds: and seeing the light

A boom in bird studies: behaviour, evolution and ecology

Ghost of the great auk: third mass extinction.