Sean Nixon Sean Nixon is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. For thirty years he has researched the links between...

Michael Guida Michael is a cultural historian with a particular interest in the place of nature in British modernity. Research associate...

Geoff Sample Geoff Sample is a field recordist, natural history author (Harper Collins) and sound artist (BBC radio), with a special...

Helen Penn is an education academic who has undertaken consultancies for a variety of international aid agencies. Whenever possible, she...

Susan Clayton Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris VII, France Links between birds and humans inspire works of art and literature,...

Hannah Hunter Queen’s University Fig 1. Gulls at the remains of Brighton’s West Pier at sunset. Photo © Maït Foulkes, used with...

Gregory Forth University of Alberta Fig. 1. Fantail Source: Donna McKinnon More than other sorts of animals, birds offer many...

Philip Howell University of Cambridge Extract from “1960s London, Tourists Feed Pigeons in Trafalgar Square, Colour Home Movies”,...

Tom Bailey Theatre Maker, UK mechanimal.co.uk Bristol, where I’m based, is one of the hotspots of natural history documentary making, and...

Andrew Whitehouse Lecturer University of Aberdeen Fig. 1 Reed Bunting Source: author's collection It’s now a year since the first...

Nancy J. Jacobs Department of History, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA Simon A. Tamungang Department of Forestry and Wildlife...

Shawn Bodden PhD Researcher in Human Geography University of Edinburgh Once, sheltering from a sudden rainstorm, I dashed under a bridge...

Jeremy Mynott In the early days of Spring 2020 – I had a late-night phone call from my friend Michael McCarthy, the former Environment...

Dr Paul Merchant National Life Stories The British Library Corn buntings with farmland background Credit: Richard Crossley CC BY-SA 3.0...

Prof Roger Wotton Emeritus Professor of Biology UCL Joseph Wright’s famous work “An Experiment on a bird in the Air Pump” (see above) was...