This book sets out to explore the intriguing multispecies relationships between humans and birds and birds and humans during the Bronze Age in North Europe. I will argue that avian creatures were central to Bronze Age people and their worldings.1 However, before we begin this odyssey, let us put one thing straight, right from the beginning: I am neither a twitcher nor a birder. Some of the latter would even question that this is a book about birds. That said, I do enjoy the company of birds. As I outlined in the preface, it is some of my alluring meetings with avian creatures that persuaded me to write this book. My interest in our feathered friends is grounded in the commensal bond that exists and is exposed in human–bird relations. As well as humans showing an interest in birds and their being, birds seem to show a similar interest in human beings.