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Digital Image - Crimson Rosella, Bushfire Beach Survey, Lorne, Feb 1983
Reg. No: MM 112378
- Summary:
- Photograph taken of bushfire wildlife victim in Lorne following Ash Wednesday.
This image was taken by Andrew Wegener on a field survey following the Ash Wednesday Bushfires on the beaches between Apollo Bay and Torquay. The survey studied the effects of bushfire on the wildlife and a number of specimens were photographed and collected that day. Andrew Wegener donated 15 of the specimens to the ornithology collection at Museum Victoria for study and research and published a paper in the Australian Bird Watcher describing the survey and its findings. - Statement Of Significance:
- This series of images is significant in a number of ways. It references the effects of bushfire on wildlife and illustrates quite literally the power of the heat and ambient environment during a bushfire. Most of these animals showed no outward signs of bushfire effect. Most died from heat or smoke exhaustion. Further these images illuminate a small collections in the ornithology collection made up of samples from this survey. Whilst the images give a human context to the specimens and reveal how and when the survey was conducted they also stand as a visual identification for what are now only bones.
- Description Of Content:
- Image of remains of Crimson Rosella lying on beach partially covered in sand.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Andrew Wegener, 2010
- Acknowledgement:
- Photographer: Andrew Wegener
| Discipline: | History |
More information
| Tagged with: | bushfires, australian native animals, birds, natural environment, natural disasters, wildlife, naturalists |
| Themes this item is part of: | Sustainable Futures Collection, Victorian Bushfires Collection |
| Primary Classification: | SUSTAINABILITY |
| Secondary Classification: | Natural Disasters |
| Tertiary Classification: | bushfires |
| Original Caption: | Crimson Rosella |
| Format: | Digital Still Image: Colour |
| Photographer: | Andrew Wegener, Australia, 1983 |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Lorne, Victoria, Australia, Feb 1983 |
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