I was wondering if anyone has mounted a male pileated woodpecker before? If so, I am getting a reproduction made, and was wondering if you already mounted one, could you email me some pictures, so I could get an idea on how I want mine positioned. Thanks.
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You have been asking that question, for at least a month, that I know of, or someone else has also. I don't understand, is your keeper on vacation, or have you not thought about the library, National Audubon Society , ect. Those places, will have photos of actual live birds, just because a bird is mounted, doesn't mean, that it is accurate.
He runs in cycles about it. But I remember his question and trying to find a mounted one back in April 2003 before I moved. NINE months.
Hope he finds his woody.
Perhaps hes hunting for a law breaker? Why go looking for the bad guy, have him email you a picture "evidence". Get his address and arrest him.
Ok, I see.
Both males and females. Since they come in from various nature preserves and etc, they are always "found dead" specimens and they usually look like roadkill. Sometimes they ARE! Even though I can usually salvage them enough to be displayable, I don't have any desire to keep photos of them on hand.
(I like the red-breasted sapsuckers better anyway.)
Always use photos of LIVE bird for reference!
I guess Randall Waites, John C, and Dale Jarvis don't have a life, and spend all of their time posting ridiculous comments on other people's postings. My suggestion to you three morons is to keep your comments to yourself. I posted this message to see if any of you taxidermists mounted a woodpecker in a more creatve position, instead of the usual mounting on the side of a piece of wood. I guess Nancy M is one of the more professional taxidermists on this website. The three morons I mentioned must be the "cookbook taxidermists."
But keep in mind that non-game species are almost always being displayed at notoriously short-funded educational facilities of one sort or another. In addition, at least around here, the mounts are routinely transported all over the place as traveling educational exhibits.
What they want is a mount that is sturdy, easy to transport, and in a position that would be typical for the species. With woodpeckers that usually boils down to being stuck on the side of a piece of wood. I would love to mount a red-shafted flicker in flight, for instance, to show those beautiful wings, but I doubt if I will ever get the chance. One grab by a school kid and it would be all over for that mount.
At least with sapsuckers I can drill some holes in the wood and put fake sap in them!