This is a film about taxidermists working on birds at the South Australian Museum, then known as the 'Adelaide Museum', in 1946.
The film shows taxidermists preparing the bodies of the birds for exhibition. Scientific examinations being carried out by Museum staff and by University of Adelaide researchers on live birds and on the bodies of dead birds. It also show collecting specimens, branches, and nests from birds in the wild to study and then used for display cases at the Museum.
The film focuses on a trip to collect new specimens of Pied Cormorants, also known as Shags, living in the mangroves near Port Gawler, on 2 June 1946.
For more details visit the State Library of South Australia's catalogue:
SLSA: PRG1665 f6 - www.catalog.sl...
Негізгі бет Wild bird life for the Adelaide Museum (1946)
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