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Panel 5

BIRD WATCHING

The development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century threatened to replace field sketching and portraiture. The field camera displaced the gun rather than the pencil, however, and became a marvellous aid to finished bird art in the studio. Photography and painting survived side by side.

The growing interest in, and familiarity with, birds in their natural environment saw a corresponding rise in awareness, if not yet in practice, of the need to preserve both birds and their environment.

Ebenezer E. Gostelow Betty Temple Watts Alec H. Chisholm

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