Museum stuffed full

The Manutahi Museum is run by taxidermist enthusiast John Ward.  What variety, from rampant polar bears to scorpions.


One is never "boared'

Not often you get time to study the colours of a regular peacock.

 This golden pheasant had lived in the wild one house away, and had passed away recently by bumping into the neighbour's window.  John was in the process of resurrecting it.  The colours were incredible, the maroon feathers looked like they had been placed over the tail feathers - nature is unusual.