[Nhcoll-l] The best way to preserve birds in spirit

[Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)]

Hi all,

We have some birds that we would like to preserve whole, in alcohol. We are currently discussing the best way to preserve them - apparently in the past birds here were put directly into 70% EtOH with no exposure to formalin. I have encountered some pretty squishy birds in spirit, however. On the other side, I recently saw an email from a collection manager suggesting putting birds in 10% formalin for 10 days before transferring them to EtOH, which seems like a very prolonged exposure to me. If any of you who preserve birds in fluids would share what you all do, I'd really appreciate it!

Cheers,

Tonya

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Dr Tonya Haff
Collections Manager
Australian National Wildlife Collection
National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO
Canberra, Australia
Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office)
(+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile)

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