Two other notable people who are also bird-watchers:
Vernon Handley--English conductor
Niles Eldredge--American palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist
John Leonard
On 23/06/2008, 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
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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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