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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13740

    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
    Full-length portrait of Barbara MacRoberts on the beach at Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Taken with the research group’s pet crows Nikon and Rolleiflex, one flies in to perch on MacRoberts shoulder.

    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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