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Working with birds | preparing bird skins | links

In recognition the importance of bird skin collections for current and future generations, this webpage has been created to provide basic tools on how to prepare bird study skins. The target audience is graduate students working in the field as well as volunteers and staff at parks, colleges, universities, and museums that have the appropriate permits.

Please note: The birds shown in these presentations were salvaged. As these presentations deal with preparing skins from whole animals, some of the imagery may be considered graphic.

 
Intro: The look of the bird
Part 1 Spread wings, a good place to start
Part 2 Skinning your first bird
Part 3 Problems with bird heads, partial skeletons & other methods
Part 4 Stuffing your first bird
Part 6 Sexing birds using gonads (in prep)

Files are in PowerPoint (.ppt) format. It may take 1.25 minutes to download each of these large files.


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