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The Welfare of Domestic Fowl and Other Captive Birds pp 17–51Cite as

Human–Bird Interactions

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Abstract

The human–bird relationship is diverse and varies between cultures and within the same cultures over time. Humans have exploited various avian species for millennia, using them for many different purposes including their flesh and eggs as food, skins and feathers as clothing, egg shells and feathers (including whole taxidermied birds) as decorative items, feathers as quill pens or as fletching for arrows and darts. Their bones have been made into musical instruments, fishhooks and other artefacts, and their guano, feathers, and bones have been used as fertiliser. Birds have been targeted for subsistence and sport hunting. In addition, birds have served as pets, fictive family members, or tools in the hunt for other birds, fish and small mammals.

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Notes

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    Humans have been training raptors to kill and capture other birds since at least 750 BC (Cade, 1982, p. 51), and certain aquatic species have been trained to fish for humans. The earliest ornithological text, completed in 1248, is De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (The Art of Falconry), by Frederic II von Hohenstaufen (Lederer, 2007).

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    Unfortunately, these facilities often also have unmonitored, free ranging cats who can terrorize the avian inhabitants, and the facilities are often understaffed and or lack consistency in who will care for the birds (Coultis, D., personal communication, 2007).

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    Because climatic change presents an even greater threat to survival of world bird populations than wind turbines, the use of turbines as an alternative energy source is supported by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, even though they kill birds (Lederer, 2007).

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    Peer-reviewed journals such as Society and Animals and the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, which are attempting to change attitudes toward animals, require authors to engender animals as correct English in their instructions for authors. In addition, the journal Anthrozoös allows authors to chose whether or not they engender nonhuman individuals.

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    The programme aired Tuesday, 9 May 2006.

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    Until recently, the ivory-billed woodpecker was included in this list. Apparent sightings of a bird or birds were reported from Arkansas in 2004 (Birdlife International, 2005). However, if it survives, its numbers are thought to be quite low and it is still classified as “Critically Endangered” on the IUCN Redlist (Birdlife International, 2007b). Ironically, a new species, the Imperial Woodpecker, is now suspected as being extinct (Birdlife International, 2007b).

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    Illinois, in 1904, became the first in the United States to operate a state operated game farm for the production of captive pheasants to be released for hunters. About 90,000 pheasants are raised and released annually at state operated Department of Natural Resource controlled hunting sites in Illinois.

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  1. Dept. Animal & Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada

    Ian J. H. Duncan

  2. Cruelty to Animals, Royal Society for the Prevention of, Wilberforce Way, Horsham, W.Sussex, RH13 9RS, United Kingdom

    Penny Hawkins

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Anderson, P.K. (2010). Human–Bird Interactions. In: Duncan, I., Hawkins, P. (eds) The Welfare of Domestic Fowl and Other Captive Birds. Animal Welfare, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3650-6_2

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