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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13726

    Portrait of Mike and Barbara MacRoberts

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of Mike and Barbara MacRoberts conducting research on egg synchronisation in the gull colony on Walney Island, Cumbria, England. They are shown on grassland taking field notes.

    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.

    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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