Birds Collection (page 100)

Paroaria coronata, red-crested cardinal
Plate 157 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
Skeleton of a heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) specimen found in New Zealand during the Holocene period (10, 000 to present). See also T25118

Ptiloris paradiseus, paradise riflebird
Plate 100, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Sylvia communis, greater whitethroat
Plate 174 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Ichthyornis dispar, cretaceous bird
Painting by Maurice Wilson (c. 1950)

Hesperornis regalis, cretaceous bird
Painting by Maurice Wilson (c. 1950)

Cuculus canorus, common cuckoo, Anthus pratensis, meadow pip

Pachyornis elephantophus, moa bird
The giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand

Melopsittacus undulatus, budgerigar
Budgerigar specimen (Melopsittacus undulatus), photographed under UV light. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Struthio camelus, ostrich
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Manorina melanophrys, bell miner
Plate 80, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Parotia lawesii, Lawes parotia
Plate from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Bird Collections housed at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Asio flammeus galapagoensis, short-eared owl
Plate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)

Loxia curvirostra, red crossbill
Plate 152 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Lagopus mutus, rock ptarmigan
Plate 196 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Riparia riparia, sand martin
Plate 128 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Aglais urticae and Inachis io
Small tortoiseshell and peacock butterflies. Pressed insects prepared by Leonard Plukenet, housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Turdus merula, Eurasian blackbird
Plate 185 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Carduelis carduelis, European goldfinch
Plate 155 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Maiasaura with young
An animated model of the dinosaur Miasaura, created by Kokoro Ltd. for the Natural History Museum, London. This dinosaur whose name meand good mother lizard lived during the Upper Cretaceous 60-85 mya

Oenanthe oenanthe, northern wheatear
Plate 187 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Paralichthys adspersus, fine flounder
Fish labelled Hippoglossus kingii collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Isalnds. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Le Merle palmiste, blackbird in cabbage tree
Plate 70 from Vieillots Histoire naturelle de oiseaux d Amerique Central Volume 12. The Natural History of Birds from Central America

Polyboroides radiatus, Madagascan harrier-hawk

Astrapia nigra, arfak astrapia
Hand coloured lithograph by Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88)

Anthus sp. pipit
Plate 132 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Collection of stuffed birds
Case of stuffed bird specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, satin bowerbird
Plate 11, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Food chains
Illustration from Nature at Work 1978, NHM. Food chains in an oak woodland and on the seashore

Emberiza citrinella, yellowhammer
Plate 178 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Buteo galapagoensis, Galapagos hawk
Plate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)

Cuculus canorus, common cuckoo
Plate 139 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Argusianus argus, great argus
Detail of a feather from a great argus (Argusianus argus) from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Parus palustris, marsh tit
Plate 180 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Fringilla coelebs, chaffinch
Plate 148 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Bird skins
Specimens from the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, sedge warbler
Plate 125 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Actitis hypoleucos, common sandpiper
Plate 187 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Apteryx australis, brown Kiwi, Haliaeetus leucogaster, white
Skeletons of a brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) and a white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) from The Dorling Kindersley Nature Encyclopedia, (1998)

Saxicola torquata, common stonechat
Plate 149 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

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