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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13739

    Portrait of Barbara MacRoberts

    Date
    1969
    Sitter
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Barbara MacRoberts in right profile. The research group’s pet crow, Nikon or Rolleiflex, is perched on her right shoulder and obscuring her face. Taken on the beach at Walney Island, Cumbria, England.

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

    Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, 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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