In Pictures: Bill Oddie, conservationist who found fame as one of The Goodies

In Pictures: Bill Oddie, conservationist who found fame as one of The GoodiesOddie hosted wildlife programmes for the BBC including Birding With Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie Goes Wild, Springwatch and Autumnwatch.Bill Oddie with his OBE in 2003 (Johnny Green/PA)PA Archive

Bill Oddie, who has died at the age of 85, first found fame as a member of The Goodies, whose television comedy show attracted millions of viewers in its heyday.

He later became a respected ornithologist, wildlife presenter, broadcaster and conservationist.

The Goodies, left to right, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor in 1975 (PA)PA ArchiveConservationist Sir Peter Scott and Bill Oddie feed the birds at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust in Gloucestershire in 1986 (PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie with a dormouse at the launch of the Great Nut Hunt at High Elms Country Park, Farnborough, in 2001 (Tim Ockenden/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor outside The Prince Charles Cinema in London for the video and DVD launch of The Goodies… At Last in 2003 (Yui Mok/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie launches the new Visit Scotland website with Tam the peregrine falcon in 2004 (Michael Stephens/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie with Bandit, a rescued fox, and one of the new Royal Mail woodland animal stamps on Hampstead Heath in London in 2004 (Andy Butterton/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie puts the final touch to his canvas, one of 108 to make up a giant image of Holbein’s portrait of King Henry VIII, in Trafalgar Square, London, in 2005 (Michael Stephens/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie with a person in a gorilla outfit as hundreds of people dressed as gorillas took part in a charity race to raise money for endangered animals, in London in 2008 (John Stillwell/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie at Westminster in 2012 to support the Humane Society’s complaint against a badger cull to the EU’s Bern Convention, which protects wild species (Stefan Rousseau/PA)PA ArchiveZac Goldsmith, then MP for Richmond Park (left) and Bill Oddie (right) hold whole elephant tusks into a crushing machine, as part of the International Fund for Animal Welfare ivory crush of items donated by members of the public, in London in 2014 (David Parry/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie with Kody, a hearing dog puppy, at The Hearing Dog Awards hosted by Hearing Dogs for Deaf People in London in 2016 (Matt Alexander/PA)PA ArchiveBill Oddie at the Animal Hero Awards in London in 2018 (Ian West/PA)PA Archive