Bird Specimens 8: How to make decoy wire mounts

Stella Ramey, an alumna of UBC, demonstrates how to prepare a bird skin for a wire-frame based decoy mount. Stephanie Cavaghan, a student in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, describes some uses of these mounts in the field.
Presented by the North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC-V) 2012 and hosted by the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Workshop convener: Ildiko Szabo
Citation for this video series: Szabo, I, K. Bostwick, C. M. Milensky, H. C. Proctor, M. B. Robbins, E. Scholes III, P. W. Trail, J. Wieczorek and D. K. Tan. 2012. "NAOC-V workshop: Using and Contributing to Avian Collections Workshop". UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum UA-cam Channel, uploaded 30 January, 2013.

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