The Owl That Fell from the Sky (14 page)

Registration numbers

The specimens whose stories are told in this book are held at several museums.

Barn owl – Auckland Museum, LB1962

Kaikoura moa egg – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, ME12748

Ōkārito kiwi – Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, AV38269

Antipodean albatrosses – Auckland Museum, LB4307–8

Reef heron – Museo Zoologico, Florence, 2188

Black-thighed falconet – Auckland Museum, LB7213

Ovenbird nest – Auckland Museum, LB8051

Rajah – Auckland Museum, LM373

Arctic group – Auckland Museum, LM391 (polar bear), Auckland Museum, LM388-90 (musk oxen)

Orang-utan – Auckland Museum, LM381

Banjo frogs – Auckland Museum, LH3026 (largest froglet)

Cook's tortoise – not known

Turtle bones – Auckland Museum, LH2025 (from Waikorea Beach); Auckland Museum, LH679 (from Royal College of Surgeons); Geology Collection, University of Auckland, 18221 (Eocene fossil)

House geckos – Auckland Museum, LH1855–7 (from Arutanga wharf)

Sea snake – Auckland Museum, LH342

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