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 gods 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.