Hi All,
For those from Christian Circles, there is John Stott, who is a bit
of a 'celebrity'! Been on speaking tours (with lots of birding!) all
over the world, and a couple of years ago had recorded around two and
a half to three thousand species.
Cheers,
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 23/06/2008, at 11:22 PM, Russell Woodford wrote:
Shame on you! You've left Dools off the list of celebrity birders!
He now has his own radio segment - 3RRR on Thursday mornings at
about 8.15.
There's also David Jaffe, a contemporary composer from the USA. He
did a residency here at Melbourne University and came out to WTP
for a day.
(I recall a couple of American actors, but I haven't birded with
them, so that's enough name dropping from me now)
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org
On 23/06/2008, at 11:09 PM, Paul Dodd wrote:
I watched Top Gear too, Tim! (Although I did also record David
Attenborough!)
So I wonder how many other celebrity birdwatchers there are?
Bill Oddie, of course - but who else?
Wikipedia lists the following under the "List of Birdwatchers" page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_birdwatchers):
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke: British Chief of the
Imperial
General Staff during the Second World War
Jimmy Carter: President of the United States
Agatha Christie: Author and playwright
Jeremy Clarkson: Journalist, Television Presenter
Ian Fleming: Author
Meriwether Lewis: Explorer
Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States
Patrick O'Brian: Author
George Plimpton: Author
Teddy Roosevelt: President of the United States
James D. Watson: Nobel laureate, molecular biologist, and
discoverer of the
structure of DNA
E. B. White: Author
Wikipedia also mentions that these celebrities are birdwatchers in
separate
articles on each of them:
Vic Reeves (English comedian)
Eddie Lawrence (US TV personality)
Eric Morecambe (English comedian)
George Orwell (British author)
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Paul Dodd
Docklands, Melbourne
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Tim Dolby
Sent: Monday, 23 June 2008 9:35 PM
To:
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Top Gear, birds and bears
Hi all,
I've a confession to make. Rather than watch David Attenborough's
show on
bears (except for the last 5 minutes on the Giant Panda, which was
fantastic!) I watched 'Top Gear'. Sorry about that.
The thing is that on Top Gear they drove across Botswana, over the
Makgadikgadi salt pans, through the Kalahari, and then onto the
Okavango
Detla.
Also guess what!? Jeremy Clarkson, the show's main character, is a
birder.
He was rarely seen without his binos (Leica from what I could see)
around
his neck. In a similar vain to the Tour de France (which, by the
way, starts
soon), there were many birding references. Mainly about hornbill:
'There's a
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill!'. Botswana's known for its hornbill.
Also FYI the following article appeared in the Agence France-
Presse (AFP),
see below. (That being said Clarkson once said: 'There will be no
tree,
leaf, cloud, lawn, peat bog or environmental precious place that I
won't
drive over.')
Now isn't this what birding-aus is all about! Good birding gossip,
intermixed with some other stuff.
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
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Botswana clears "Top Gear" of damaging salt pans
GABORONE (AFP) — Botswana's government came to the defence Friday
of the
makers of "Top Gear" after the BBC motoring show was accused by
environmentalists of damaging the famed Makgadikgadi salt pans during
filming.
Jeremy Clarkson and his co-hosts had been widely criticised
earlier this
month for driving an assortment of vehicles across the sun-baked
salt flats,
home to one of the biggest populations of zebras in the whole of
Africa.
But in an attempt to dampen the row, the government in Gaborone
has issued a
report it commissioned into the filming, saying the producers went
to great
lengths to ensure that there would be no damage to the wilderness.
"Many
weeks of planning went into determining a suitable route for
filming".
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