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Goldie the Eagle was received from Helsinki Zoo on 16th December 1959. He was approximately seven years old when he escaped from London Zoo on 27th February 1965. Britain quickly became obsessed with the escape of Goldie; he appeared on television, in the press and was mentioned in the House of Commons. He flew from tree to tree in Regent's Park and was free for 11 days and 19 and a half hours before he was recaptured and brought back to the Zoo. Goldie escaped again on 15th December and was captured again on 19th December 1965. Goldie left London Zoo on 8th March 1985 when he moved to the Falconry Centre at Newent. He died there in March 1986

Christian Anton Goering was a German naturalist, painter and graphic artist who spent several years in Venezuela. He learned taxidermy from his father, who was a member of several ornithological societies. It was at a meeting of one of these societies that he met Christian Ludwig Brehm who helped him obtain a position at the Ornithological Museum of the University of Halle, where he worked under the direction of Hermann Burmeister. From 1856 to 1858, they travelled in South America and he decided to pursue his interests in natural history. He also went to London, where he took lessons from the zoological artist Joseph Wolf. While he was there, the Secretary of the Zoological Society, Philip Lutley Sclater, asked him to go to Venezuela to collect specimens for the British Museum