As the human population continues to expand, so does the demand for new housing. This means that in recent years, our urban landscape has continued to encroach  more and more on natural spaces and countrysides, forcing birds and other wildlife to either move on and find a new place to live, or adapt and survive.

It might be hard to believe but the birds we see flying around our skies today share their ancestry with dinosaurs! That's right, bird evolution is a complex process that's taken place over hundreds of thousands of years to bring us the wide array of feathered species we see today.

In this blog, we're going to take a deep dive into the history of birds, their ancestry and their evolutionary story. So, if you've been asking yourself - what did birds evolve from? You're in the right place! Strap yourself in, we're heading back 115 million years to see where the evolutionary history of birds started...