Strigiformes Collection

Strix aluco, tawny owls
Plate 4 from a collection of original drawings of birds. Watercolour on paper c.1788 by Sarah Stone (c.1760-1844). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1788

North Island Laughing Owl Whekau
Norh Island Laughing Owl or Whekau, Sceloglaux albifacies rufifacies. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol 4 Plate 52. Date: 1888

Tyto alba, barn owl
A mounted specimen of a barn owl (Tyto alba). Barn owls are well distributed in Europe, South America, U.S.A, Africa and Australia. There are 35 subspecies

Morepork Ruru, Laughing Owl Whekau
Morepork Ruru, Ninox novaeseelandiae. Laughing Owl Whekau, Sceloglaux albifacies. Artwork by JG Keulemans from Sir Walter Lawry Bullers A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Vol.2 Plate 20 Date: 1888

Owls and Sparrow hawk
Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

Athene blewitti, forest owlet
Donated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label

Owl De Ulula
Illustration of Owl De Ulula by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

LS Plate 7 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 7, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

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

Ninox novaseelandiae, morepork
Ff. 39. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Strix fulva and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Bubo virginianus, great-horned owl
Plate 61 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Asio otus, long-eared owl
Plate 383 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Nephrite owl carving
Stages in carving an owl in nephrite. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Strix nebulosa, great grey owl
Close-up photograph of a great grey owl (Strix nebulosa), which can be found from Scandinavia across Siberia to Sakhalin, Alaska, Canada, and parts of the nothwestern United States

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