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  • Birds in the Australian Museum Collection
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    • Bird Illustrators
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    • Night Parrot
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    • Whale Graveyard
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    • Australian Museum Herpetology Collection
    • The Turtle from Mary River
    • Giant Geckos
    • Australia's Lost Frogs
    • Peter Rankin - a biographical sketch
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    • Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection
    • Australian Lungfish
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    • Ichthyology at the Australian Museum: Collections, Databases and the Web
  • Birds
    • Australian Museum Ornithology Collection
    • Eungella Honeyeater
    • Bird Illustrators
    • Eyrean Grasswren
    • Night Parrot
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Image Gallery: Quick tour of the bird collection

Get a bird's-eye view behind the scenes in the Birds Collection.

Level 1 corridor

Ornithology Collection Manager: Dr Walter Boles

Ornithology wet lab

Ornithology dry laboratory space

Little Eagle mounted specimen

Red Wattlebird skin (ventral view)

Compactus units in dry collection space

Study skins in a compactus unit

Red-capped Robin study skins

Walter Boles putting away new study skins

Shelving for large study skins

Wedge-tailed Eagle wing

Taxidermy repair and maintenance laboratory

Bird skeletons

Egg specimens

Nest specimens

Ornithology spirit specimens

Vials for tissue samples