Antiques store owner, 74, pleads guilty to 13 charges after regulator uncovers hundreds of animals at his home and shop Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet.

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As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent. They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally taxidermied and frozen that were seized from the property of a Victorian antiques store owner last year.