MUSEUM STUDY OF WHITE HERON
Display Planned For New Bird Hall
Having earlier observed keas in their natural habitat in the high alps and collected background material for a diorama in the Edgar Stead New Zealand Bird Hall, Canterbury Museum staff recently made another expedition to Okarito, in South Westland, to study the nesting place of the white heron for the same project. The party was fortunate to find a dozen pairs nesting in company with the whitethroated shag. Museum staff have been several times to Okarito because it is the only known nesting place of the white heron in New Zealand, and its reproduction will therefore be a unique feature of the new bird hall. The Okarito diorama will be 22ft wide, a concave painting giving perspective, and the foreground modelled from materials gathered round the lagoon.
The Edgar Stead Bird Hall will form the main entrance to the centennial memorial wing as a long corridor leading from the upper floor of the old building into the new departments of New Zealand natural history.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28150, 13 December 1956, Page 21
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