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The Clarke Bird Collection

Cecile Clarke collected many taxidermied bird specimens from the local area.

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The star of our bird collection is Charlie, one the last two wild condors in Northern California (the other one is at Eureka High School). There is a major conservation effort currently underway by the Yurok Tribe to reintroduce condors to the area.
​They were once an vital part of the ecosystem, as well as being sacred to the Yurok, with important ties to their ceremonies.
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Allen's Hummingbird

American Robin

American Scoter

Anna's Hummingbird

Ash-Throated Flycatcher
Baldpate

Barn Owl

Black Sea Brant

Black Swift

Black Turnstone

Black-Bellied Plover

Black-Headed Grosbeak

Black-Throated Gray Warbler

Blue Grosbeak

Bohemian Waxwing

Brown Towhee

Bufflehead

Burrowing Owl
California Condor

California Quail

Canada Goose


Canvasback

Cedar Waxwing

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Chestnut-Backed Chickadee

Cinnamon Teal

Clark's Nutcracker

Cliff Swallow

Common Murre

Common Snipe

Common Yellowthroat

Curlew
Dark-Eyed Junco

Dunlin
Emperor Goose

Evening Grosbeak
Fox Sparrow

Gadwall
Gray Catbird

Green-Backed Heron

Green-Winged Teal

Great Horned Owl

Greater Scaup
Heermann's Gull

Hermit Warbler

Horned Grebe

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Horned Lark

House Finch


Hutton's Vireo
Kestrel

Killdeer

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Kingfisher
Lazuli Bunting

Lesser Golden Plover

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Yellowlegs


Lincoln's Sparrow
Mallard

Marbled Murrelet
Northern Cardinal

Northern Saw-Whet Owl


Old Squaw
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Pectoral Sandpiper

Peregrine Falcon

Pileated Woodpecker

Pintail

Purple Martin
Red Crossbill

Red-Breasted Merganser

Red-Shafted Flicker

Red-Winged Blackbird

Redhead

Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Savannah Sparrow

Shoveler

Song Sparrow


Spotted Owl

Stellar's Jay

Surf Scoter

Teal

Townsend's Solitaire

Tree Swallow
Varied Thrush

Violet-Green Swallow


Virginia Rail
Water Pipit

Western Bluebird

Western Sandpiper

Western Screech Owl

Whimbrel

White-Winged Scoter

Willet

Wilson's Warbler

Wrentit
Yellow Warbler

Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Clarke Historical Museum
240 E Street
​Eureka, California 95501
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(707) 443-1947
Open Wednesday - Sunday
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Closed Monday and Tuesday

​Open until 8:30 p.m. during Friday Night Markets
Open until 9 p.m. during Eureka Arts Alive
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