Animal Preservation
Here’s a post to preserving animals in as many forms as I can shove in here/am aware about. Please feel free to reblog and add more links!
Taxidermy
Mountable vs Non-mountable Pelts (visual guide)
Mountable Pelt (visual)
How to Reshape a Face on a Pelt
Making a Soft Mount Coyote
Mounting a Persian Leopard (gore tw)
Salt and Alum Tanning Rabbit Hides
Finger Fleshing Rabbit Hides
Tru Bond Tanning
Egg Tanning
Fleshing a Coyote (video)
Taxidermy Quality Pelt
Collecting
Bone Collecting for Beginners
Bone Collecting in Scotland
Roadkill Collector’s Arsenal
Using Hydrogen Peroxide to Whiten Bones
Whitening Tutorial
Why to not Boil or Bleach Bones
Degreasing Tutorial
Processing and Cleaning Bones
Feather Identification
Decomposing in Pots
Choosing the Right Method for Cleaning
Cleaning With Maceration
An American Vultures Guide to (legally!) Working Around the MBTA
Studying Owl Pellets
How to Clean Feathers
How to Blow Out Eggs
Preservation
Forum Thread on Rat Preservation
Preserving Animals
Alcohol Preservation
Preserve Moss
Preserve Bird Nests
Dry Flowers
Salt/Borax Drying
Preserve a Wasp Nest
Insects
Relaxing Jar Tutorial
Basic Insect Pinning Tutorial
Insect Relaxing
Insect Pinning
Carving
Bone Carving Tools
Working With Horn
Legal Issues
United States Animal Parts Laws
Legal Birds to Collect From (US)
Migratory Birds Protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Wild Bird Laws (Scotland)
Birds Protected in Canada
Schedules (UK)
US Cat & Dog Fur
International Shipping
Taxidermy Regulations
Misc
Vulture Culture shirt by NaturePunk
Book Suggestions
Vultures Around the World
Fur Sewing
Another Masterpost by Pastoriagym
