Birds
The bird collection contains around 4,000 mounted birds, 2,000 cabinet skins and over 5,000 clutches of birds’ eggs. Most of the specimens are from Britain and Ireland.
More than 900 of the mounted birds were prepared by the Belfast taxidermy firm Sheals, established in 1856 by James Sheals who was later joined in the family business by his two sons, Alfred and Thomas. The Sheals family produced some of the finest mounted birds and mammals in the world at that time.
The collection includes a number of mounted birds collected in the early 1800s by the famous Irish naturalist, William Thompson. Many of the birds are first recorded Irish specimens of American vagrant species, that is, species found well outside their normal home environment.
BELUM.Lg6505
BIRD; Red-breasted Merganser
BELUM.Lg6503
BIRD; Red-breasted Merganser
BELUM.Lg6418
BIRD; Surf Scoter
BELUM.Lg6082
BIRD MOUNT; Tufted Duck
BELUM.Lg6883
BIRD : Common Pheasant
BELUM.Lg5457
BIRD; Golden Eagle
BELUM.Lg6047
BIRD; Coot
BELUM.Lg6033
BIRD MOUNT; Gannet
BELUM.Lg6031
BIRD MOUNT; Manx Shearwater
BELUM.Lg6026
BIRD MOUNT; Red-throated Diver
BELUM.Lg5403
BIRD MOUNT; Pintail
BELUM.Lg5851
BIRD MOUNT; Little Grebe
BELUM.Lg5566
BIRD MOUNT; Shag
BELUM.Lg5334
BIRD; Osprey
BELUM.Lg5555
BIRD MOUNT; Sparrowhawk
BELUM.Lg5279
BIRD; Eider
BELUM.Lg5260
BIRD MOUNT; Pochard
BELUM.Lg5286
BIRD MOUNT; Red - Breasted Merganser
BELUM.Lg5144
BIRD MOUNT; Leach's Petrel
BELUM.Lg5277
BIRD MOUNT; Long - Tailed Duck
BELUM.Lg7183
BIRD : Knot
BELUM.Lg7190
BIRD; Barn Owl
BELUM.Lg7067
BIRD : Black-headed Gouldian Finch
BELUM.Lg5441
BIRD; Honey Buzzard
BELUM.Lg5777
BIRD MOUNT; Song Thrush
BELUM.Lg6251
BIRD : Ringed Plover
BELUM.Lg6566
BIRD; Herring Gull
BELUM.Lg6541
BIRD; Great Skua
BELUM.Lg6560
BIRD; Herring Gull
BELUM.Lg5677
BIRD MOUNT; Short-eared Owl
BELUM.Lg5670
BIRD MOUNT; Long-eared Owl
BELUM.Lg6464
BIRD; Jack Snipe
BELUM.Lg6463
BIRD; Common Snipe
BELUM.Lg6462
BIRD; Great Snipe
BELUM.Lg6835
BIRD; Great Grey Shrike
BELUM.Lg6588
BIRD; Kittiwake
BELUM.Lg6167
BIRD : Silver Pheasant
BELUM.Lg6113
BIRD MOUNT; Gyr falcon
BELUM.Lg6561
BIRD; Herring Gull
BELUM.Lg6128
BIRD MOUNT; Roseate Tern
BELUM.Lg6369
BIRD; Greenshank
BELUM.Lg6733
BIRD; Jack Snipe
BELUM.Lg6124
BIRD MOUNT; Roseate Tern
BELUM.Lg6123
BIRD MOUNT; Roseate Tern
BELUM.Lg6435
BIRD; Kestrel
BELUM.Lg5593
BIRD MOUNT; Sedge Warbler
BELUM.Lg6050
BIRD MOUNT; Jackdaw
BELUM.Lg5976
BIRD; Collared Dove
BELUM.Lg6265
BIRD : Whimbrel
BELUM.Lg6163
BIRD : Tawny Owl
BELUM.Lg6144
BIRD MOUNT; Sandwich Tern
BELUM.Lg5382
BIRD; Black-headed Gull