Sentinel Chickens Blue Bloods and Bird Bugs What Birds Tell Us About the World and Our Health

By Doherty Peter

Birds provide humans not only with enormous aesthetic pleasure, they also inform us in this complex and unpredictable world. As we seek to house, feed and sustain ever-increasing human populations, some of what we are doing is a threat to wildlife. Aerial Surveillance shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our attention.

Studying birds has provided new insights into the nature and prevention of human disease, with cancer, malaria, influenza, novel vaccines and designer drug therapy being on the list.