[Nhcoll-l] Horrible ;-) taxidermized birds and mammals

[Mike Rutherford]

Hi Sergio,

One possibility for the birds could be to reduce them down to individual feathers and then add photographs to Featherbase, see https://www.featherbase.info/en/home

Not done it myself yet as I only came across the website recently but I have been thinking about it as a way of processing some of the birds in our freezer rather than turning them into traditional round skins.

Cheers,
Mike


Mike G. Rutherford
Curator of Zoology & Anatomy

The Hunterian
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland

E-mail: mike.rutherford at glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:mike.rutherford at glasgow.ac.uk>



From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Sergio Montagud
Sent: 25 January 2023 12:20
To: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Horrible ;-) taxidermized birds and mammals


Hello everyone,

Last week we received some items of taxidermized birds and mammals in a very bad condition. Not only they are bad preserved, with dust and feather/hair fallen, also they have no data about origin, date or taxidermist. There are not interesting species, all are common except five or six that could be considered as rare.

This type of donations is frequent because most people are received now properties of their families that traditionally have these kinds of pieces.

I would ask you if anyone have experienced with these sorts of exx. and try to reuse in other terms. I want to say if they take them, extract the skull, and discard the rest or something like these.  Ideas and experiences are welcome. Evidently, invest time to recover these is not considered.

Thanks a lot

Sergio

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Sergio Montagud Alario
Museu [UV] Història Natural
Universitat de València
e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es<mailto:sergio.montagud at uv.es>
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