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 | 100 plus yr old Kakariki |
 We where out for a 'Sunday Drive' and came across the Putaruru Timber Museum
In one of the restored historical buildings there the Acclimatisation Society has a great display of (taxidermy) Stuffed NZ and introduced birds. Many of which where stuffed by a local well reknown person in the late 1800s
There where serveral Red Crown and Yellow Crown Kakariki, male and female.
Tthe 1st time I have every seen kakariki stuffed...let alone over 100 yrs old
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