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Liz Rymill

The Bird Room continues Bool Lagoon taxidermy legacy of Jack Bourne

Marion Patterson says her father, Jack Bourne, was encouraged by his school teacher to escape the classroom for the wetlands. (ABC South East: Liz Rymill)

A collection of echidna tongues, a family of blue wrens, a brolga that hit a powerline and started a fire, the windpipe of a magpie goose, featherweight turtle hatchlings.

These are just part of more than 600 taxidermied birds, and 350 fauna specimens that form the lifelong "collecting hobby" of Bool Lagoon's Jack Bourne.

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