Third Case Case Contents

  • Black hammer shell
Australian pygmy goose

Australian pygmy goose

Reference: 261BH
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Black Chough

Black Chough

This member of the crow family has a mastery of flight, often performing wonderful aerial displays of diving and swooping.

Reference: 174H
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Black hammer shell

Black hammer shell

From the East Indies

Reference: L864
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Blackbird

Blackbird

Reference: Ex KCC
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Common Scoter

Common Scoter

From Rye in East Sussex

Reference: 295H
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Fluorite

Fluorite

Glows purple under ultraviolet light.

Reference: 2006.62
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Great northern diver

Great northern diver

This large bird is normally a winter visitor to our shores and breeds in Iceland.

Reference: 482H
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Large Blue Pinna

Large Blue Pinna

The Pinna family includes some of the largest shells known. They live attached to rocks with their silky strong byssus threads.

Reference: L884
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Obsidian

Obsidian

Obsidian is formed from rapidly cooled volcanic lavas with high silica, thrust to the earth’s surface in the latter stages of a volcanic eruption. Because it has no crystal structure it can be break into very sharp pieces so is used to make surgical blades.

Reference: 5676
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Plumed hydroid – obelia flabellata

Also known as obelia longissima, it is found in temperate (mild temperatures) and cold seas, but not in the tropics. It’s feathery stems resemble seaweed.

Reference: KENTM:H278.1
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Plumed hydroid – plumularia setacea

Plumed hydroid – plumularia setacea

Found worldwide, it is also known as a sea bristle. Plumed hydroids are creamy yellow, or brown, and have feathery stems.

Reference: KENTM:H278.1
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Plumed hydroid – sertularia abietina

Plumed hydroid – sertularia abietina

Also known as a sea-fir, it lives in a colony. It can be identified by its 3-D-like branches forming a spiral colony resembling a fir tree. They are often found in rocky habitats with strong tides or waves.

Reference: KENTM:H278.1
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Pygmy Cormorant

Pygmy Cormorant

Reference: G77
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

Smew

Smew

The smew shows an example of sexual dimorphism: males and females are different colours.

Reference: 1995.105 (male) 305H (female)
Can be found: Colour and Camouflage

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