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Robert O Hara Burke Memorial Museum

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Preserved Bird Display

 

At the Beechworth Burke Museum, they have a magnificent display of over 100 birds, which have been preserved or "stuffed" and placed in a magnificent glass display cabinet.

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Most of these birds were acquired by the Museum over the three year period from 1879 to 1881.

Again most of the birds were preserved by Mr A W Eustace and the Reverend W S C Howard. The museum paid 5 shillings each to have the birds preserved.

Most of these birds were shot in the local area around these years.

 

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A listing of the Burke Museum Displayed Birds

White Goshawk Woodchat Shrike Spotted Water Crake
Leadbetter's Cockatoo Beautiful Flucatcher ( India ) Avocet
Swift Parrot Wandering Flycatcher ( India ) Indian Snipe
Wonga Wonga Pigeon Flycatcher unnamed ( India ) Turnstone
Nankeen Night Heron Paradise Flycatcher Great Black Backed Gull
Southern Tern Flycatcher unnamed Variegated Gull
Australian Hobby Ring Thrush Black Headed Gull
Jardines Harrier Missel Thrush Gull unnamed
Wedge Tailed Eagle Manakin Red Necked Grebe
Little Sparrow Hawk Bohemian Chatter Common Buzzard
Kestral Black Tilmouse Mottled Buzzard
Merlin Falcon Yellow Bunting ( Holland ) Snowy Owl
Collared Sparrow Hawk Snow Bunting Virginian Bee Owl ( USA )
Australian Dollar Bird Bunting unnamed Horned Owl
Blue Bellied Lorikeet Blue Bird female Barn Owl
Tail of Black Cockatoo Goldfinch ( Europe ) White Owl
Bengal Kingfishers ( India ) Mountain Sinnet Rayed Surn Owl ( Sweden )
Belted Kingfisher Californian Scrub Quail Boobook Owl
Bee Eater ( India ) Passenger Pigeon Short Eared Owl
Rock Finch Bull Finch Diurnial Owl ( Holland )
Melodius Finch Green Thornbill ( India ) Regent Bird
Redpole ( France ) Common Cross Bill Baltimore Bird
Mountain Finch Red Winged Starling Common Jay
Green Finch Common Starling Rifle Bird
Bell Bird Lyre Bird Turquoise Parrot
King Parrot Eastern Rosella  

 

 

Above you can see the beautifully preserved parrots, the Eastern Rosella, the endangered Turquoise Parrot and the nearly extinct Swift Parrot.

All the birds in this extensive display are in very good condition, and the colouring is still very good. Come in to see the red headed woodpecker.

 

Chiltern Birdwatching  Trails

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Beechworth Museums

Burke Museum Court House Museum
Bottle/ Brewery Museum Carriage Museum
Powder Magazine Museum El Dorado Museum

 

 

 

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