tiptickler9000

hello stranger not much to ogle at here since i lost my old account but have your fun also i reblog a lot of wet specimens taxidermy and dead things so you probably shouldnt interact if that makes you uncomfortable a man of the fame not a man of the people

[sunshinem0ths]

a piece from last year that i only finished like 2 weeks ago and forgot to post here

[deadbirdsdaily]

Prep NO.ORN-UNK

Ring-billed Gull

Larus delawarensis

[deadbirdsdaily]

Prep NO.ORN-UNK

Ring-billed Gull

Larus delawarensis

I DID IT! I found some of my first prep photos. I am so excited! I'd really like this blog to be a pretty much complete gallery of my preps, and it's so nice to look back on my early preps and see how fare I've come too. Though honestly the early ones aren't as terrible as I feared, but I took a great class with a lot of phenomenal TAs who made sure we didn't botch any birds too badly.

It's hard for me to know for certain because I didn't keep the best records and both my first wing/skeleton prep and my first wing/skin were Ring-billed Gulls, but I'm pretty sure that the wing yesterday was from my very first bird and this is my second bird which was my first skin.

I love gulls so much! I should do more

[nadiqxk]

godtier john

and roxy

[daily-bird-facts]

today we have an exceptionally poorly documented bird - this is the Bougainville thicketbird, endemic to the interior mountain forests of the island of Bougainville. the island belongs to the Solomon Islands archipelago, east of and, in the case of Bougainville Island, under the jurisdiction of Papua New Guinea. today's critter has six photos on eBird. it keeps largely to the undergrowth, foraging methodically on foot for… something. its diet is unknown. its habit of being quiet and preferring to creep about in dense thickets of ferns and bamboo make it extremely difficult to observe, let alone do any research on. however, on one occasion, a researcher found an attended nest, which gives us a bit of information.

for example, its outside was deliberately built of darker materials in order to make it harder to see; it was snuggled into a ledge on a vertical stone face by a stream. reportedly, birds returned to build another nest in this same spot in subsequent years (their original nest, egg, and the preserved skin of one member of the nesting pair having been taken to the American Museum of Natural History) (a bit rude tbh), laying one or two pale brown-speckled eggs. the nest was discovered during a 1979 attempt to verify rumors of shearwaters nesting in the area. their name, Cincloramphus llaneae - more specifically, its latter portion - is in tribute to the researcher's wife, Llane Hadden. (if anyone has a copy of Don Hadden's 1981 book Birds of the North Solomons, he purports it has several photographs of the nest and eggs in question!) needless to say, we have no recent records of their well-hidden nests. its home island in general has recieved little ornithological work, despite its diversity in bird species - some of them endemic to the island, like our critter today!

27 July 2026

[voract]

Dave Wip Fresh Off of Tiktok =:P

[sweetenednothings]

It’s happening to everybody.

[jesuu-deactivated20150929]

[neostellarjpg]

great escape

[deadbirdsdaily]

Black-tailed jackrabbits are locally endangered in Washington state so this lady was part of a telemetry program that tracks the population. The tag in her ear has her ID number #57 and tracked her location.

When she died they were able to use her location to find her body, so we know that she was predated by something (likely by a coyote based on the compound fracture on her hind leg and the puncture marks on her neck and haunches). Her body was cached for later where it was retrieved by the department of wildlife for necropsy. I feel a little bad that the predator lost their kill, but I’m glad I got to prepare her.

[ropeandring]

i need $88.22 someone help me out rq

[ropeandring]

holy fuck i now need 168.22

[ropeandring]

i need $88.22 someone help me out rq

[pacificremains]

We probably shouldn't do this to dogs

[ropeandring]

this made me ponder how humans looked at wolves or i guess dogs at that point and decided to genetically botch them until they became medically concerning in every which way via disturbing amounts of inbreeding this is insane like we really just wanted to turn these fuckin kickass predators (maybe some sort of fear response or do we just simply have a constant carnal desire to twist everything into some sort of fucked up rendition that pisses itself and probably dislocates a hip whenever any sort of emotion pangs at its brain) into living breathing funko pops with eyeballs trying to escape the fucking country they literally sound like theyre fighting tooth and nail with a paper bag every time they breathe. imagine describing this to someone a few hundred years ago like yeah man we got really good with that genetic modification shit oh dope did yall cure cancer or something well no actually we decided it would be funnier to create literal abominations of creatures because they kinda look cute and like theyve never known a single moment of peace

[ropeandring]

oooh she suck me like a gogurt

[ropeandring]

[ropeandring]

oooh she suck me like a gogurt

[boneyadventures]

They're coming out!! Got through one box today and I'm tagging each skull as I go to keep better track of their origins. I've got my old bone journal for reference and I'm really glad I kept track of things back in the day, some things have been a pleasant surprise!

[doyouhearfootsteps]