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A stuffed and mounted specimen of a Blue Jay or Indian Roller (Coracious bengalensis), White-backed Vulture, Pharoah's Chicken or White Scavenger Vulture and milling guests at the busiest natural history museum perhaps in all of Europe. See a Black-legged Falconet and a stuffed Dodo - the closest you can now get to this extinct species! A Tawny Frogmouth from Australia - another rare species you're unlikely to see unless you really go after it. See also a Snowy Owl, Indian Long-tailed Nightjar and African Long-tailed Nightjar, a Green Magpie and the cross-section of the casque of a hornbill. See an Ammonite and Stegodont At 34 seconds (from 33 to 38 seconds) into the clip is the EXTINCT Dodo! See the bird eggs of extinct species (Elephant Bird and Moa) from 1:46 to 2:20. Frogmouth, Snow Ow
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