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.
