Evening Talk: Birds and People – Travels through Time by Ralph Todd

This popular talk takes us back in time drawing on visits to Egypt and China. We go back some 3000 years BC for our first look at man’s association with birds depicted in some amazing tomb paintings, moving rapidly through to the 17th and 19th centuries and the resulting changes in land use. Finally we look at the changes in our relationship and appreciation of birds over the last 100 years or so using sites from the UK to Antarctica as examples.