IMAGE: KANE FLEURYThere is a display case at Otago Museum that I am absolutely fascinated with and that I also find deeply upsetting. It is filled with a small selection of New Zealand’s extinct birds — gone for good. If it was not for the about a dozen individuals held by museums around the world it would be forgotten about completely. You can see this individual as well as other extinct birds which are gone, but forever frozen in time by museum taxidermy in the Nature and Southern Land, Southern People galleries at Otago Museum. - Kane Fleury is assistant curator, Natural Sciences at Otago Museum.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 16, 2021 16:30 UTC