[NHCOLL-L:5984] Re: How to, and would you, repair a bird specimen?

[Kevin Winker]

Hi, Kirsten. We use just plain old white glue to repair and delay the
demise of birds in our education collection. But we would remove a damaged
endangered bird with research value to the research collection. If all
that's needed is a little white glue, we'd repair it. We typically do not
add rare specimens to our education collection. Instead, when such material
is needed it is temporarily checked out from the research collection for
the lab in which it is used, and it is handled only by a trained person;
students are not allowed to handle these. That retains the value of the
research material and yet enables students to use the specimens as well,
albeit a little less intensively.

Regards,
-- 
Kevin Winker
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775
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