Renowned bird artist, Martin Woodcock, passes at 84

Photo: Barbara Woodcock

British bird artist for 45 years, Martin Woodcock, has left the nest, permanently.  He travelled through Africa and Asia painted some of the world's most elusive birdlife.   His masterwork, which occupied three decades, was the huge, multivolume The Birds of Africa, for which he painted more than 200 colour plates.   In the 1980s and 1900s, he painted 5,000 separate illustrations of more than 2,000 different species.   In 1994 he became president of the Africa Bird Club and late in his career he became a poet.

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