The Irishman who stuffed New Zealand’s birds
Catherine Woulfe goes searching for the legacy of one of New Zealand’s first taxidermists. This story originally ran in Barker’s 1972 magazine under the title Legacies: He Never Quit the Hustle. Birds! In the 1800s they were everywhere. Huia, kōkako, takahē, kākāriki – all clamouring to be shot and stuffed and stuck on a mantle. Into this cornucopia … Read more