Location: ANWC, Building 803 ‘Diversity’, CSIRO, Clunies Ross St., Acton

Two tours to view the bird specimens in the ANWC have been arranged for Canberra Birds members. The collection is not open to the public and this is a special opportunity to view a sample of the bird specimens.

The Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) holds almost 200,000 irreplaceable scientific specimens of wildlife, including skins, skeletons, specimens in spirit, bird egg collections, a wildlife sound library and frozen tissue.

This includes 55,000 birds, representing about 99 per cent of Australian birds – the most comprehensive collection of Australian and Papua New Guinean birds in the southern hemisphere.

More information is available here: https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/Collections/ANWC/What-our-collection-holds.

Each tour will last for about an hour. Numbers are limited. Details of how to access ‘Diversity’, the new collections building housing the wildlife collection, will be provided to participants closer to the date.

Please register with Julie Hotchin at julie.hotchin@gmail.com and provide your mobile number and the name and number of an emergency contact.