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

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