With its large beaked nose, hooded eyelids and extravagant facial hair, the characterisation was accused by some of being an anti-Semitic caricature.
Arikha drew Beckett constantly, with his beaked bird's profile, in silverpoint, ink and crayon: playing chess, smoking, listening, pushing back his glasses.
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The first was a very rare 12ft (3.6m) Sowerby's beaked whale - normally a deep water species which feeds off squid and cuttlefish.
Glass mosaic tiles will then be applied to create the images of an Atlantic white-sided dolphin, a short-beaked common dolphin and fin whale.
Heysham Moss supports a number of bog plants including round leaved sundew, bog myrtle, bog rosemary, bog asphodel and the locally-rare white beaked sedge.
Two long-beaked echidnas, primitive egg-laying mammals, even allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, he added.
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And a vengeful critter is the kea, a pointy-beaked native parrot.
Dr Frantzis, who has just published his data in Nature, studies Cuvier's beaked whale a denizen of the Ionian sea off Greece's west coast, among other places.
Both are barely altered: if you see a crow you might share Tippi Hedren's sense of doom (though the house where Suzanne Pleshette gets fatally beaked was a set).
The loud squabbles and squawks of the punky-haired great crested tern, the black-naped tern, the bridled tern and the red foot-and-beaked roseate tern, fill the air during high summer.
During the survey work, an underwater microphone called a hydrophone will be used to record the high frequency sounds of harbour porpoises and white-beaked dolphins for analysis.
Some may be taxonomically unique the last representative of an otherwise extinct group of animals, like the duck-billed platypus or the long-beaked echidna while others may differ from each other only slightly.
But during two days in May 1996, Dr Frantzis observed something that he had never seen before a dozen beaked whales stranded as individuals, rather than a group, along a 40km (25 mile) stretch of coast.
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