Top Gear, birds and bears

[Russell Woodford <>]

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
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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)
>
> -----------------
>
> 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
>
> ________________________________________________
>
>
> 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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