Charlie Bingham is a UK based nature writer and author of The Life Affirming Magic of Birds. After completing a degree in archaeology at the University of York, Charlie began to reconnect with nature in her mid 20’s. She found that birds especially seemed to have the ability to help her through difficult times and made it her life’s mission to share her love and passion with a wide audience. Charlie’s passion for the natural world shines across her social media platforms and in her work as a digital communications specialist and event manager for nature based charities. Charlie has written for various platforms and publications including Conker Magazine, Bird Table, The Guardian and Bald Hiker.

• Introduction (6)1. Ancient TimesThe Literary Foundations of Ornithology in Ancient Civilizations (12)Birds in Ancient EgyptAristotle's History of Animals: Early Avian KnowledgePliny the Elder and the Legacy of Naturalis HistoriaAncient Chinese Literature and the Symbolic World of Birds2. Middle AgesA Global Perspective (50)Early Christian Allegory and Symbolism: Fifth- to Twelfth-century EuropeScholastic Natural History: Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-century EuropeMedieval Islamic Ornithological TraditionsEast Asian Ornithological Works: Tenth- to the Fifteenth CenturyIndigenous American and Andean Ornithological TraditionsMedieval Legacy: Between the Fifth and Fifteenth Centuries3. The Early Modern PeriodFifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (102)IntroductionFoundations of Early Modern OrnithologyConrad Gesner's Historia Animalium (1555), SwitzerlandUlisse Aldrovandi's Ornithologiae (1599–1603), ItalyJohn Ray and Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae Libri Tres (1676–1678), EnglandEleazar Albin and George Edwards, EnglandMark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731–1743), England/North AmericaGilbert WhiteMaria Sibylla Merian and Other Women in Early Modern OrnithologyGlobal Perspectives in Early Modern Ornithology4. 19th Century OrnithologyThe Evolution of Ornithology (160)A New Age of BirdsJohn James Audubon and The Birds of AmericaJohn Gould and his Empire of BirdsDarwin, Wallace and the Theory of EvolutionThe Ornithology of VariationThe Rise of Women in OrnithologyThe Global Reach of Evolutionary OrnithologyA New Ornithological MindsetField Guides and Conservation Movements 5. Modern OrnithologyOrnithology Takes Flight (214)A Brand New EraRoger Tory Peterson and the Field Guide RevolutionErnst Mayr and the Systematics and the Origins of SpeciesDavid Lack and the Rise of Behavioural EcologyRachel Carson and the Silent SpringDavid Attenborough and The Life of BirdsTim Birkhead and The Wisdom of BirdsNoah Strycker's The Thing with FeathersThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanHelen Macdonald, H is for HawkScott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory BirdsModern Bird Field GuidesConclusionIndex (262)Further reading (269)Picture credits (270)About the Author (271)Acknowledgments (272)

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Charlie Bingham is a UK based nature writer and author of The Life Affirming Magic of Birds. After completing a degree in archaeology at the University of York, Charlie began to reconnect with nature in her mid 20’s. She found that birds especially seemed to have the ability to help her through difficult times and made it her life’s mission to share her love and passion with a wide audience. Charlie’s passion for the natural world shines across her social media platforms and in her work as a digital communications specialist and event manager for nature based charities. Charlie has written for various platforms and publications including Conker Magazine, Bird Table, The Guardian and Bald Hiker.

• Introduction (6)1. Ancient TimesThe Literary Foundations of Ornithology in Ancient Civilizations (12)Birds in Ancient EgyptAristotle's History of Animals: Early Avian KnowledgePliny the Elder and the Legacy of Naturalis HistoriaAncient Chinese Literature and the Symbolic World of Birds2. Middle AgesA Global Perspective (50)Early Christian Allegory and Symbolism: Fifth- to Twelfth-century EuropeScholastic Natural History: Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-century EuropeMedieval Islamic Ornithological TraditionsEast Asian Ornithological Works: Tenth- to the Fifteenth CenturyIndigenous American and Andean Ornithological TraditionsMedieval Legacy: Between the Fifth and Fifteenth Centuries3. The Early Modern PeriodFifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (102)IntroductionFoundations of Early Modern OrnithologyConrad Gesner's Historia Animalium (1555), SwitzerlandUlisse Aldrovandi's Ornithologiae (1599–1603), ItalyJohn Ray and Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae Libri Tres (1676–1678), EnglandEleazar Albin and George Edwards, EnglandMark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731–1743), England/North AmericaGilbert WhiteMaria Sibylla Merian and Other Women in Early Modern OrnithologyGlobal Perspectives in Early Modern Ornithology4. 19th Century OrnithologyThe Evolution of Ornithology (160)A New Age of BirdsJohn James Audubon and The Birds of AmericaJohn Gould and his Empire of BirdsDarwin, Wallace and the Theory of EvolutionThe Ornithology of VariationThe Rise of Women in OrnithologyThe Global Reach of Evolutionary OrnithologyA New Ornithological MindsetField Guides and Conservation Movements 5. Modern OrnithologyOrnithology Takes Flight (214)A Brand New EraRoger Tory Peterson and the Field Guide RevolutionErnst Mayr and the Systematics and the Origins of SpeciesDavid Lack and the Rise of Behavioural EcologyRachel Carson and the Silent SpringDavid Attenborough and The Life of BirdsTim Birkhead and The Wisdom of BirdsNoah Strycker's The Thing with FeathersThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanHelen Macdonald, H is for HawkScott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory BirdsModern Bird Field GuidesConclusionIndex (262)Further reading (269)Picture credits (270)About the Author (271)Acknowledgments (272)

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Charlie Bingham is a UK based nature writer and author of The Life Affirming Magic of Birds. After completing a degree in archaeology at the University of York, Charlie began to reconnect with nature in her mid 20’s. She found that birds especially seemed to have the ability to help her through difficult times and made it her life’s mission to share her love and passion with a wide audience. Charlie’s passion for the natural world shines across her social media platforms and in her work as a digital communications specialist and event manager for nature based charities. Charlie has written for various platforms and publications including Conker Magazine, Bird Table, The Guardian and Bald Hiker.

• Introduction (6)1. Ancient TimesThe Literary Foundations of Ornithology in Ancient Civilizations (12)Birds in Ancient EgyptAristotle's History of Animals: Early Avian KnowledgePliny the Elder and the Legacy of Naturalis HistoriaAncient Chinese Literature and the Symbolic World of Birds2. Middle AgesA Global Perspective (50)Early Christian Allegory and Symbolism: Fifth- to Twelfth-century EuropeScholastic Natural History: Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-century EuropeMedieval Islamic Ornithological TraditionsEast Asian Ornithological Works: Tenth- to the Fifteenth CenturyIndigenous American and Andean Ornithological TraditionsMedieval Legacy: Between the Fifth and Fifteenth Centuries3. The Early Modern PeriodFifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (102)IntroductionFoundations of Early Modern OrnithologyConrad Gesner's Historia Animalium (1555), SwitzerlandUlisse Aldrovandi's Ornithologiae (1599–1603), ItalyJohn Ray and Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae Libri Tres (1676–1678), EnglandEleazar Albin and George Edwards, EnglandMark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731–1743), England/North AmericaGilbert WhiteMaria Sibylla Merian and Other Women in Early Modern OrnithologyGlobal Perspectives in Early Modern Ornithology4. 19th Century OrnithologyThe Evolution of Ornithology (160)A New Age of BirdsJohn James Audubon and The Birds of AmericaJohn Gould and his Empire of BirdsDarwin, Wallace and the Theory of EvolutionThe Ornithology of VariationThe Rise of Women in OrnithologyThe Global Reach of Evolutionary OrnithologyA New Ornithological MindsetField Guides and Conservation Movements 5. Modern OrnithologyOrnithology Takes Flight (214)A Brand New EraRoger Tory Peterson and the Field Guide RevolutionErnst Mayr and the Systematics and the Origins of SpeciesDavid Lack and the Rise of Behavioural EcologyRachel Carson and the Silent SpringDavid Attenborough and The Life of BirdsTim Birkhead and The Wisdom of BirdsNoah Strycker's The Thing with FeathersThe Genius of Birds by Jennifer AckermanHelen Macdonald, H is for HawkScott Weidensaul's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory BirdsModern Bird Field GuidesConclusionIndex (262)Further reading (269)Picture credits (270)About the Author (271)Acknowledgments (272)

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