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And you, Laurence. Look forward to your books coming out next year.

Good to see you again @rspbengland.bsky.social Old Moor, Paul.

Ouch, sorry to hear that Nicola. Get well soon!

The original was by Edward Lear published by John Gould

Looking forward to it!

...2/2 well rendered, ie recognisable through key features, postures or movement; humans more stylised or simply sloppy (humans know what humans look like, after all). Most of the less successful animal images appear to have been abandoned unfinished.

When I first mooted this as most likely the extinct great auk in 2016, it was partly based on the same assessment now published by Birkhead and Montgomerie in @bou.org.uk Ibis. But the artistic context of the whole #Alta site is also a factor. Generally, the hundreds of animal images are ... 1/2

Glad to see my photo and description in The Long Spring has prompted further investigation and, no doubt, debate.

So very proud to have grown up with the RSPB, to have grown my children up with the RSPB & written for it for 21 yrs now. Exciting to see it respond, adapt, embrace, move & change. Birds & nature increasingly bring us together, to shape & connect the world around us. And that needs all of us.

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