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SINCE prehistoric artists decorated their cave walls, people have depicted birds. The class Aves runs through the history of art like a thread and if you're knowledgeable about birds it gives an extra dimension to the pleasure of looking at pictures. With few exceptions, visually gifted people - creative types - have always found birds irresistible. Fanciers won't need to wonder why; they know.
In “art” pictures, birds typically either add decorative in its early days, we have a vivid sense of the different breeds as they were and - with exhibition varieties - of their evolution down the decades.
