I am working on a project that requires the mounting of a quail, a least tern, and a palm warbler. The palm warbler is about 3 inches tall and the legs are so small that they cant be wired (i dont believe), the least tern is about the size of a dove.
I need the palm warbler freeze dried in a position to have him sitting on a branch. The quail and tern will be positioned on the ground.
I have all applicable permits to send with the birds during FD'ing. I would need these back by mid to late August at the absolute latest.
Please email me directly with price quotes and approx. turn-arounds if interested.
Thanks!
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I would suggest that you do standard mounts on these birds. Warblers can be mounted reasonably fast because they are so small, and wires most certainly can go through the legs. Unless the bird has been stored very long in a freezer, a bit of injection of water in the legs will plump up the legs fine for a wire. I have run wires into hummingbirds which are much smaller than warblers. Many warblers are quite fat, and a freeze dry job, in very short order, will have fat leaking out onto the feathers and have bleed through. Even experienced freeze driers have no way to quell the amount of fat in many warblers.
The least tern and quail also should also be done conventionally. Terns are amoung the the easier shorebirds to do because the skin is quite thick for a bird that size, and scraping can remove the quite often thick layer of fat. And quail are so big they should pose no problem for taxidermy.
I mean no insult, but if you can't mount these three birds conventionally, then you should not have taken the job. I would suggest you farm them out to an experienced bird taxidermist.
go to www.hidebeak.com they have pewter bird feet.
anything as small as a warbler and I thought that FD would help save some time. I got an email from Jonathan Stanley of Harlequin Taxidermy showing me pics of a tiny zebra finch that he mounted and how to handle wiring the legs so I am much more confident in handling it now.
As far as the quail and tern, I have mounted several hundred quail, again, just thought it would save some time while I was working on my backlog stuff and the other pieces for this order.
I will post some pics of them once they are done.
Thanks for the replies