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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">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 $B!F(Bconverted$B!G(B 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$B!G(Bm not sure if they should
just be moved or if it would be better to try and soften them somehow before. Or if this $B!F(Bconversion$B!G(B isn$B!G(Bt a recommended course of action at all.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for any help or advice in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Mackenzie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8;mso-ligatures:none">Mackenzie Kirchner-Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">, she/her</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Museum Curator, Integrated Biology<br>
<b><i>San Bernardino County Museum</i></b><br>
Phone: 909-798-8619</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">2024 Orange Tree Lane<br>
Redlands, CA, 92374<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8">Our job is to create a county in which those who reside and invest can prosper and achieve well-being.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8">San Bernardino County Museum acknowledges that the land on which our facilities are sited is the ancestral and unceded territory of the Maara$B!G(Byam, commonly referred
to as the Serrano people, which, in the contemporary era, are represented by two federally</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255AA8">$B!>(B</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8">recognized
tribes: the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and Morongo Band of Mission Indians. We also acknowledge that in the historic era other tribal communities and European settlers intersected with Serrano peoples in these spaces. Our histories and stories are
intertwined in this space, and by sharing them in culturally</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255AA8">$B!>(B</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8">appropriate ways and co-stewarding
collections, we hope to honor and celebrate our indigenous neighbors and partners. We also seek to offer an accurate, clear and thorough picture of this region$B!G(Bs complicated past and create a shared vision for the future that is mutually</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255AA8">$B!>(B</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255AA8">beneficial
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