This was a small museum with local specimens. Interestingly they prepared birds in a unique way, with feathers still attached to wings. If that’s not your thing, here’s your warning it starts and will continue down a weird path.
Here’s a flamingo.
A vulture.
Probably an albatross.
Here’s a seal jaw with teeth and you can see the extra spikes they have to help hold onto fish they catch.
Penguins look cute even as skeletons, but there are a bunch more coming later that were much more alive that these ones.
Lots of dolphins and whales get washed up in this area, so they have lots of skulls.
There are also many other local birds that they’ve posed in the rafters.
Some of them more in flight.
The local parrots also look unique in this preparation style.
Full skeletons take a lot more work to prepare, but they have some great preparations. Here’s a dolphin as whales have baleen, not teeth.
A majestic owl where you can see the full flight feathers splayed out.
It was a really cool experience seeing such a different presentation compared to what we normally see in natural history museums.
Another little dolphin.
Another vulture
Armadillo scales will preserve, and you can see all the hairs as well.
They do have a really large whale skeleton. It was a Sei whale, one of the third largest whales.
Being in a small place meant that you could get right up to the skeleton and right inside it essentially.
Here’s Matthew for scale next. His head would fit in the eye socket.
Here’s Kerri for scale next to a condor.
That’s a very cool museum. It makes a kind of sense for feathers to be mounted next to the skeleton. The parrot, dolphins, and whale are especially interesting.
Yeah Matt was really impressed