[Nhcoll-l] Converting bird mounts

[Scott Swann]

Dear All,
David Sibley famously did the opposite of this as he took a 100 year old
Ivory billed woodpecker studyskin and turned it into a mount, I would
contact him directly. Basically you have to reverse the process and soak
the skin, at our college we don't use chemicals, so in water and then un
stitch it, there will be a sewing job running up the breast bone and
remove the artificial guts and then once it is just a skin remake it into a
study skin. Jasper White, a former student of mine, produced a really
clever video which is probably on Youtube of him making a macaw into a
studyskins. After 40 years I am uncertain if study skins is one word or two.

Scott Swann
Dorr Museam

On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 3:03 PM Kirchner-Smith, Mackenzie <
Mackenzie.Kirchner-Smith at sbcm.sbcounty.gov> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I have a question about the process of converting bird mounts into skins,
> or at least making them more compact to be properly stored in drawers with
> skins.
>
>
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> I have some mounted birds where they are the only specimen we have of that
> species, and I would like to store them with the skins. I know I have seen
> mounts ‘converted’ into skins, such that the feet and pushed down and (when
> necessary) the head is straightened out to be in line with the body. We
> have some in our collection that I can tell used to be mounts. Has anyone
> ever done this, or know how to go about doing this? These are birds with
> wires in the legs, etc. I’m not sure if they should just be moved or if it
> would be better to try and soften them somehow before. Or if this
> ‘conversion’ isn’t a recommended course of action at all.
>
>
>
> Thank you for any help or advice in advance.
>
>
>
> - Mackenzie
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> *Mackenzie Kirchner-Smith*, she/her
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