Birds and Us (eBook)

A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation

Tim Birkhead (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23994-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humansSince the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy-and from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today's fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats.Spanning continents and millennia, Birds and Us chronicles the beginnings of a written history of birds in ancient Greece and Rome, the obsession with falconry in the Middle Ages, and the development of ornithological science. Moving to the twentieth century, the book tells the story of the emergence of birdwatching and the field study of birds, and how they triggered an extraordinary flowering of knowledge and empathy for birds, eventually leading to today's massive worldwide interest in birds-and the realization of the urgent need to save them.Weaving in stories from Birkhead's life as scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is an unforgettable account of how birds have shaped us, and how we have shaped them.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 63 color + 70 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: Abuse • addiction • Admiration • Aestheticism • Alfred Newton • Amateur • American Museum of Natural History • Animal Behaviour (journal) • animal husbandry • anonymity • apex predator • archaeology • AUK • Barbary partridge • Bigamy • biological specimen • biologist • Biology • Birdwatching • Brambling • Breast Cancer • Bridlington • British Birds (magazine) • British Guiana • broad-winged hawk • Brood parasite • Bull-baiting • Cafeteria • Camouflage • Cannibalism (zoology) • Career • Carl Linnaeus • Censure • Charles Kingsley • Chester Cathedral • Classroom • climate change • Coimbatore • Colonialism • common crane • Common cuckoo • cooperative breeding • cormorant • Corn crake • Cornell University • Corvidae • C. P. Snow • cruelty • cruelty to animals • Cuckoo • Culture • Culture of ancient Rome • curator • Description • digital camera • Dio Chrysostom • Dissection • Duchy • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Ecology • Edward VII • eggshell • Elephantiasis • eleventh grade • Emblem • Emerging adulthood and early adulthood • Erectile dysfunction • Ethology • Eurasian bullfinch • Eurasian spoonbill • Explanatory Model • Falconry • female • gamekeeper • G. (novel) • Great Auk • Great crested grebe • Grey heron • Grey partridge • Guadalupe Island • guillemot • Gyrfalcon • Hagiography • Handbook • hatred • Health • Holotype • honeycreeper • honeyeater • Host (biology) • Hume's leaf warbler • Hyoid bone • Illustration • In Death • Infrastructure • inkling • insect • Interaction Styles • International Student • Irish Sea • Isaac Newton • Jeremy Paxman • John Maynard Smith • Killing of animals • Laity • Lighting • livestock • Macuahuitl • maladministration • Manx shearwater • Maria Edgeworth • Mating system • McGill University • medicinal chemistry • Medicinal plants • Medievalism • Mold • Natural Environment • Natural History Museum, London • Nature writing • Neolithic • new spain • Northeast China • nuisance • Ornithology • Orthomyxoviridae • Oskar • Overfishing • Paleoanthropology • Participation (decision making) • Paul Gauguin • Pedagogy • Philosophy • photorealism • Plankton • plumage • Politics • population dynamics • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood • Promiscuity • Prophecy • psittacosis • Publicity • razorbill • Reproduction • Reproductive success • Respondent • Richard Meinertzhagen • Roald Dahl • Saqqara • School website • Science • Scientist • Sensory system • Severus Alexander • Sexual Dimorphism • Skokholm • Skomer • Social Deprivation • Social Order • Socioeconomic Status • sperm competition • Spiritism • Spitting Image • Spotted sandpiper • Start the Week • Statistic • St Kilda, Scotland • student council • Suggestion • Supervisor • Thomas Henry Huxley • Tit (bird) • Tomb of Nebamun • Trogon • Ulisse Aldrovandi • Umwelt • University College London • University of Oxford • Vivisection • waterfowl • waterproofing • wear and tear • wigeon • William Holman Hunt • woodcut • woodpecker • Wood warbler
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23994-0 / 0691239940
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23994-1 / 9780691239941