Ratite Collection

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)

Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park
Live animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890

Emu and rheas at Tring Park
Rheas from South America and Emus from Australia are examples of the flightless ratite birds kept by Walter Rothschild at Tring Park

Rhea by Gambier Bolton
Rhea photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Moa bone fragment
First piece of moa bone, found between 1831 and 1836. The 15cm fragment comes from the species Dinornis novaezealandiae and is 0.01-1.8 million years old

Dinoris sp. moa skeletons
Inscribed J. Benjamin Stone, July 1907. Held in the Natural History Museum Archive PH 128/6

Dinornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
An extinct wingless bird from the superficial deposits of the middle island of New Zealand in the gallery of Fossils, British Museum, height of skeleton 5 ft 6 in. 1858. NHM Archives 1210 1/11

Little Bush Moa
Illustration of a Little Bush Moa by James Erxleben

Pterocnemia pennata pennata, rhea
A mounted adult specimen of Charles Darwins rhea (Pterocnemia pennata pennata), mounted by Rowland Ward Ltd in the early 1900s

The Ostrich nest, East of Bembesi River
October 1870. Sketch 55 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

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

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

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

Eggs from Aepyornis maximus and Gallus domesticus
Scale comparison using eggs from a chicken (Gallus domesticus), and the largest known extinct bird, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)

Struthio camelus, ostrich egg
The egg of an ostrich (Struthio camelus)

Aepyornis maximus, elephant bird egg
The elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) was a giant running bird that stood up to 3m high and weighed over 500 kgs. They became extinct in the 1650s

Upland Moa

Gallery 6
Specimens on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Dinornis giganteus, giant moa
Specimen of the extinct bird the giant moa (Dinornis giganteus), the largest bird that ever lived

Asteroceras marstonensis and Promicroceras, ammonites

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