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How the Laughing Owl was silenced
The laughing owl was a native bird of New Zealand's South Island. In the late 19th-century a stuffed specimen was brought to Norwich Castle Museum just as numbers were in sharp decline. Natural History Curator Dr David Waterhouse tells the tale of how this owl came to laugh no more
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