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.