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.Lg7132
BIRD : Yellowhammer
BELUM.Lg5046
BIRD; Cormorant
BELUM.Lg6680
BIRD; Swift
BELUM.Lg7210
BIRD : Peregrine Falcon
BELUM.Lg7180
BIRD; Razorbill
BELUM.Lg6035
BIRD MOUNT; Little Bittern
BELUM.Lg6037
BIRD MOUNT; Great White Egret
BELUM.Lg6519
BIRD; Marsh Harrier
BELUM.Lg2009.2
BIRD; Hen Harrier
BELUM.Lg7246
BIRD : Black-winged Bishop
BELUM.Lg7301
BIRD : Yellow-tailed Oriole
BELUM.Lg7086
BIRD; Blue-and-yellow Macaw
BELUM.Lg7085
BIRD; Budgerigar
BELUM.Lg6034
BIRD MOUNT: American Bittern
BELUM.Lg7352
BIRD MOUNT; Red-headed Lovebird
BELUM.Lg7320
BIRD MOUNT; Red-breasted Toucan
BELUM.Lg7307
BIRD : Rose-ringed Parroquet
BELUM.Lg7213
BIRD; Corncrake
BELUM.Lg7117
BIRD; Yellow-billed Cuckoo
BELUM.Lg7245
BIRD : Laughing Kookabura
BELUM.Lg7247
BIRD : Orange-breasted Sunbird
BELUM.Lg5185
BIRD MOUNT; Little Blue Heron
BELUM.Lg5666
BIRD DOME; Snowy Owl
BELUM.Lg7144
BIRD; Curlew
BELUM.Lg7128
Grey Wagtail
BELUM.Lg7163
BIRD : Buzzard
BELUM.Lg7135
BIRD; Arctic Skua
BELUM.Lg7179
BIRD : Oystercatcher
BELUM.Lg7153
BIRD; Chaffinch
BELUM.Lg7158
BIRD : Magpie
BELUM.Lg7119
BIRD; White-tailed Eagle
BELUM.Lg7196
BIRD; Brent Goose (pale-breasted)
BELUM.Lg7195
BIRD; Greylag Goose
BELUM.Lg7200
BIRD : Shelduck
BELUM.Lg7175
BIRD : Fulmar
BELUM.Lg6029
BIRD MOUNT : Storm Petrel
BELUM.Lg7186
BIRD : Turnstone
BELUM.Lg5586
BIRD MOUNT; Great Black-backed Gull
BELUM.Lg6051
BIRD MOUNT; Eastern Rosella
BELUM.Lg6066
BIRD MOUNT; Scaly breasted Lorikeet
BELUM.Lg6054
BIRDS MOUNT; Rainbow Lorikeet
BELUM.Lg7357
BIRD; Griffon Vulture
BELUM.Lg7255
BIRD; Lammergeier
BELUM.Lg7064
BIRD ; Red-headed Gouldian Finch
BELUM.Lg6070
BIRD MOUNT; Kea
BELUM.Lg7278
BIRD; Blue-fronted Amazon Parrot
BELUM.Lg6053
BIRD; Grey Parrot
BELUM.Lg7343
BIRD; Eagle Owl
BELUM.Lg7126
BIRD; Goldfinch
BELUM.Lg1162
BIRD; Bleeding Heart Pigeon
BELUM.Lg7157
BIRD : Red-billed Chough
BELUM.Lg7310
BIRD MOUNT; Passenger Pigeon