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Shropshire's Fauna Collection
The Museum Service collections are an excellent record of the fauna found in Shropshire.
Shropshire has a huge variety of wildlife. The diversity of geography and geology in the county make for fertile breeding grounds for numerous species. This variety is reflected in the fact that Shropshire has 50 designated ‘wild places’ and over 37 nature reserves.
Shropshire Museum Service holds many items relating to past and current wildlife of Shropshire and their database can be searched here. Many of the plants and animals found within the database no longer exist such as the remains of 5 woolly mammoths found in a quarry at Condover.
Shrewsbury Museum has numerous objects relating to the flora and fauna of Shropshire on display. The topic can be explored through images and paintings as well as objects such as the stuffed Great Auk, which is now extinct. You can search the collections held at Shrewsbury Museum through this website.
The great Auk. The Great Auk was a large flightless sea-bird that lived around the North Atlantic coasts including Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and Scotland. It was the Northern Hemisphere equivalent of a penguin. It was hunted to extinction by peop...