Thanks, Nikolas. I noticed the name, but I'm a bit unsure about whether it
should be corrected. "Wandering Albatross" is well known, so I think
people are more interested to see them than "Gibson's," and I'm sure that
what people know of as "Wandering Albatross" is the whole group. I dunno,
I'm pretty pedantic, so if it was me, I'd have the correct names and an
explanation, but I can that there's a possible reason. The renovated
museum does seem like it's removed a lot of written content, and many
objects including animal specimens, aren't even labelled - but I gather
renovations are continuing.
Jeremy
On 25 March 2013 12:20, Nikolas Haass <> wrote:
> Yep. I addition they have to correct the label of the non-existing
> Wanderer ('proper Wanderer' = exulans, Gibson's = gibsoni).
>
> Nikolas
>
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> Nikolas Haass
>
> Sydney, NSW
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> *From:* Jeremy O'Wheel <>
> *To:* birding-aus <>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 25, 2013 9:57 AM
> *Subject:* [Birding-Aus] Tasmanian Museum Albatross Identification
>
> Hi Birding Aus,
> Last July Steve Clark and I visited the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
> and noticed what I thought were bird misidentification. It was
> particularly noticeable because the birds because all the species named and
> actually present were also there correctly identified. I emailed them at
> the time and was told they took the issue very seriously and would
> immediately look into it. 9 months later, I returned and found that the
> labels hadn't changed. I provide a link (it's public so you don't need
> Facebook to view it!), to images of the labels and birds. There are no
> other birds nearby, so it's impossible that the sign refers to any other
> birds (also their positions match the sign perfectly). I just wanted to
> check to see if people agree that these are misidentified or if I've
> somehow lost my mind. I believe the correct species are a Shy Albatross by
> itself (labelled as Wandering) and a Shy above a Black-browed Albatross
> (labelled as 2 Shy).
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152079663946515.1073741825.596561514&type=1&l=d08ec0d16d
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy O'Wheel
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