Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation | 
pickHumankind's relationship with birds from prehistoric times to the present.
I much preferred the first half: once it reaches the Victorian era it becomes denser and drier. Also note it is heavily Euro- and, particularly, British Empire-centric.
I took away from it that the privileged reliably legislate to safeguard their interests. (Shall I try on "the Bolshevik Birder" for size? ?)
His 50 year study of Skomer's guillemots was strangely uplifting.
quietlycuriouskate Meanwhile the epilogue, written around the pandemic, was despondency-inducing, full of hope as it was that we'd change in our attitudes towards other-than-human life. As it is, the wholesale asset-stripping looks only to be accelerating. 3w
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