Mothering Birds
Sean Nixon Sean Nixon is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. For thirty years he has researched the links between...
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Michael Guida
Mar 20, 20238 min read
Up close and personal: when Len Howard lived with birds
Michael Guida Michael is a cultural historian with a particular interest in the place of nature in British modernity. Research associate...
Geoff Sample
Jun 13, 20228 min read
Space for a song
Geoff Sample Geoff Sample is a field recordist, natural history author (Harper Collins) and sound artist (BBC radio), with a special...
Helen Penn
Jan 18, 20226 min read
Lament for Walvis Bay
Helen Penn is an education academic who has undertaken consultancies for a variety of international aid agencies. Whenever possible, she...
Susan Clayton
Dec 10, 202115 min read
Centuries of crafted bird lines face current logo times
Susan Clayton Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris VII, France Links between birds and humans inspire works of art and literature,...
Hannah Hunter
Oct 18, 20218 min read
Seagulls and the City: The Dramas of Human-Gull Relationships in Brighton
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
Jun 10, 20216 min read
Birds and other animals metaphors in an Indonesian society
Gregory Forth University of Alberta Fig. 1. Fantail Source: Donna McKinnon More than other sorts of animals, birds offer many...
Philip Howell
May 10, 202113 min read
Pigeons and Other Strangers in Post-War London
Philip Howell University of Cambridge Extract from “1960s London, Tourists Feed Pigeons in Trafalgar Square, Colour Home Movies”,...
Tom Bailey
Apr 6, 20213 min read
ZUGUNRUHE
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
Mar 17, 20216 min read
Listening in Lockdown: Bird song and COVID-19
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 and Simon A. Tamungang
Feb 1, 20217 min read
Red Feathers on Grey Parrots
Nancy J. Jacobs Department of History, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA Simon A. Tamungang Department of Forestry and Wildlife...
Shawn Bodden
Jan 5, 20216 min read
Pigeon problems: Sharing space in the multispecies city
Shawn Bodden PhD Researcher in Human Geography University of Edinburgh Once, sheltering from a sudden rainstorm, I dashed under a bridge...
Jeremy Mynott
Dec 18, 20208 min read
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus
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
Nov 17, 20207 min read
Incidental birds in farmers’ life stories
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
Oct 15, 20205 min read
A bird in the air pump
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...
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