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Birds and Us

by Tim Birkhead

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · March 14, 2022

Feathered friends

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An exploration of humanity's long fascination with birds, from ancient cave drawings and mummified ibises of Egypt, through Victorian egg-collecting obsessions, to modern guillemot colonies and endangered species conservation.

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