<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Hello Amos,<div><br></div><div>We generally go from no body molt, sporadic, light, moderate, heavy. I also like to put where on the body if possible, such as sporadic molt on back of neck and lower abdomen or heavy body molt over all feather tracts. That way if it is a skin, and they want to look for the body molt later they know approximately where to search. </div><div>I find a lot more sporadic molt than I ever anticipate. Some of it may be fright molt loss or other behavior/stress molting behavior, but I also think that may be important data for someone.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Beth</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:28 AM Amos Belmaker <<a href="mailto:belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il">belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Beth, Thanks for the reply!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You mention that you write the extent and placement of body moult. What kind of scale do you use for that?</p>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Nhcoll-l] Scoring Moult during bird skin prep</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Amos,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At a minimum I think recording the presence of molt is important. Many banding stations have different methods for how they record molt, often because they work on different groups of birds. So at least sharing the data that a bird has
molt will tell people they should come look at the skin.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you do skeletons then molt records may become more important, as the feathers will become separated (and possibly thrown away) from the preserved skeleton.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the UWYMV we record which flight feathers are missing or actively growing in, and the extent and placement of body molt. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If a preparator is an expert in a group of birds then I also leave it open that their molt notes can be more extensive. I specialize in birds of prey, so I tend to take a lot of notes for those birds (similar to how I would if I was banding),
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<p class="MsoNormal">cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:25 AM Amos Belmaker <<a href="mailto:belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il" target="_blank">belmakera@tauex.tau.ac.il</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been wandering what are some of the common practices regarding scoring moult during the preparation of bird specimens. It is possible to be very extensive and score each flight
feather individually (as is done in Israeli banding stations) but this is very hard to digitize later. On the other hand, creating a scale would ignore potentially important information.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What are the different strategies you use in this regard?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Stay safe!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Amos Belmaker</b></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Elizabeth Wommack, PhD<br>Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates<br>University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates<div>Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center<div>University of Wyoming,<br>Laramie, WY 82071<br><a href="mailto:ewommack@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">ewommack@</a><a href="http://uwyo.edu/" target="_blank">uwyo.edu</a></div></div><div><a href="http://www.uwymv.edu/" target="_blank">www.uwymv.</a>org</div></div><div><a href="http://www.uwymv.org/index.php/download_file/view/43/143/" target="_blank">UWYMV Collection Use Policy</a></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1S-cbOrxn8pFjBwESjZI6N8037tnknEpd&revid=0BxkSLxWP83ssMVJRVjF6RmQwTnZUVUM0ekhTWlFKL2xIb2RJPQ"><br></div></div></div>