[Nhcoll-l] Keeping bills shut

[Black, Nina]

Hi All,

Does anyone have advice for an archival glue that can be used to keep bills closed when preparing bird skins, or perhaps can suggest a good method for this? We always tie them shut with string through the nostrils, but for some birds that have long bills or oddly shaped ones it is hard to keep it closed. Some colleagues have used regular super glue, but I am not so keen on this idea

Thanks,
Nina

Nina Black
Curatorial Assistant
Ornithology & Mammalogy
Museum of Comparative Zoology
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