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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 ParkLive animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890
Aepyornis maximus, elephant bird eggThe 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
Emu and rheas at Tring ParkRheas from South America and Emus from Australia are examples of the flightless ratite birds kept by Walter Rothschild at Tring Park
Rhea by Gambier BoltonRhea photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring
Moa bone fragmentFirst 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 skeletonsInscribed J. Benjamin Stone, July 1907. Held in the Natural History Museum Archive PH 128/6
Dinornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moaAn 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 MoaIllustration of a Little Bush Moa by James Erxleben
Pterocnemia pennata pennata, rheaA 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 RiverOctober 1870. Sketch 55 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)
Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moaSkeleton 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 birdThe giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand
Struthio camelus, ostrichWatercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever
Eggs from Aepyornis maximus and Gallus domesticusScale comparison using eggs from a chicken (Gallus domesticus), and the largest known extinct bird, the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus)
Struthio camelus, ostrich eggThe egg of an ostrich (Struthio camelus)
Upland Moa
Gallery 6Specimens on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
Dinornis giganteus, giant moaSpecimen of the extinct bird the giant moa (Dinornis giganteus), the largest bird that ever lived
Asteroceras marstonensis and Promicroceras, ammonites