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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.
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