"The sense of freedom evoked by birds in flight has been a source of inspiration alike to tribal communities and the world’s major civilisations.
For environmentalists they are collectively the miner’s canary, their populations helping us to gauge the health of natural environments from the inner-city to the remote Arctic tundra.
Very often at a domestic level they are cherished for their own sake, as simple companions, as aesthetic adornments and as expression of some unspoken bond between ourselves and the rest of nature.
"The forum aims to bring together first-hand accounts from the staff and members of BirdLife Partners, and from the wider public.
Birds and People is intended to highlight how a decline in species inflicts parallel losses upon the very fabric of human cultures.