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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13722

    Portrait of Mike and Barbara MacRoberts with Peter McPhail

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length group portrait of (left to right as viewed) Mike and Barbara MacRoberts and Peter McPhail, taken on Walney Island, Cumbria, England. They stand with arms outstretch imitating birds.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Michael H MacRoberts, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Peter McPhail, field assistant to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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