Vulture Culture Masterpost

pastoriagym:

I accidentally deleted the original so here we are again!

Laws

• Birds Protected by the MBTA
• Birds NOT protected by the MBTA
• Animal Parts laws
• Cat and dog fur
• International shipping of animal products
• National Parks

Bone cleaning

• Basic Bone Cleaning
• Pot Burial (super useful for urban vultures)
• Cleaning Teeth
• Cleaning methods
• Bad words: Boil and bleach
• Burial Box
• Bone cage
• Degreasing
• Whitening

After cleaning

• Articulation guides
• Articulating
• Tea staining

Insects

• Relaxing Jar
• Displaying Insects

Skinning

• Skinning tutorial (gore!)
• Hunter and dorsal skinning
• Bird skinning

Pelts

• Pelt reshaping
• Brain tanning 1, 2
• Chemical tanning
• Alum Tanning
• Egg yolk tanning
• Mountable v Not mountable
• TruBond

Wet specimens

• With formalin (+ extra info)
• With household chemicals

Misc

• Bone collecting for beginners
• Wet Specimens
• Buy raw skulls (gore!)
• Acid and bones 1 2
• Preservation using salt/borax
• Sexing deer via pelvis
• Found a bone you can’t ID?
• Detailed guide of mammal skulls common to the US
• The Feather Atlas for North American Birds

• Roadkill checklist
• Another link masterpost
• Dermestid Beetle Care