Episode 2.8: Alex Bond
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This week's guest on Golden Grenades is Dr Alex Bond, senior curator in charge of birds at the Natural History Museum. Alex describes his work looking after the historically and culturally important specimens in his care and talks about his extensive work as a conservation biologist with a focus on the marine environment and island biology. Contains the bird Alex described as "one pound balls of hate" and the one that sounds like " a northern granny when you tell them you have met a nice boy"! Twitter: @TheLabAndField https://alexanderbond.org/ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/alex-bond.html
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