<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott Swann</div><div>Dorr Museam </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 3:03 PM Kirchner-Smith, Mackenzie <<a href="mailto:Mackenzie.Kirchner-Smith@sbcm.sbcounty.gov">Mackenzie.Kirchner-Smith@sbcm.sbcounty.gov</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"><div class="msg1162144186150715083">
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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 ‘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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for any help or advice in advance.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Mackenzie<u></u><u></u></p>
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