Under Their Wing

An evocative history charting just how intimately connected humans and birds have been since we first evolved out of the trees.

Birds and humans go back a long way—350,000 years by some estimates. During this long association, birds have integrated themselves into every facet of the human experience, from the dinner table to our mythologies to our colloquialisms and the language we use to understand the natural world. Spanning oceans, continents, and