parrot skeleton - furcula position

Bottom picture. They might also be reversed.

 

Wouter, Guus, and Jean-Christophe are the guys to talk to!

 

I believe you are referring to what is also known as the "clavicle". It is the same on all birds. You can see the position on the chicken skeleton below.





There is even a Wikki page on it which will also show you. Google "Parrot skeleton" and you will find more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furcula

 

Wouter and Guus mostly for birds. I would say top picture for angle and bottom for bone arientation to respect connexions looking at my reference pictures, but parrot furcula seems floating and not strongly articulated to skeleton like on gannet.
Nice start on it, hope you will show us when finished.

 

Greetings,

It is definitely the lower picture. I have a couple dozen grey parrot skeletons in the collection and the second one I opened still had the furcula attached. The furcula is commonly known in the US as a wishbone. I could send you a picture separately but can't reduce the size to post here. We have almost 800 Psittaciformes skeletons in the reference collection of which about 700 I ran through my dermestid colony.

 

Orkman-X this is the picture you needed, it comes from PA's beetled specimens.

 

Nice skeleton! I was away for a while but I'm happy to see another skeleton being articulated! If you try you'll see (in most birds) that the furcula fits on the coracoids, this might help as well while articulating. Did you glue the neck already? If possible you can try to make it look a bit more flowing, I know it can be hard to do, but the result might be nicer. Please post pictures when done!

 

It's great I think, both cleaning and articulation. No rings and hyoid ?

 

Hey Marc,
Very nice skeleton indeed! The other bird guys like Wouter, PA or Guus will maybe chime in for eventual criticism, but it looks fine to me
There's no consensus on the rings/hyoid/talons, it's more a matter of personal taste, and wether or not you plan to enter it in the championships, since as you said, the requirement can vary.
But if it is just for display/your collection, you should keep everything, it makes for a more complete skeleton I think The rings can be difficult to keep if you macerate the specimen, but you should look over here for some ideas:
http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,247609.0.html
What's going to be next to the parrot by the way (asking because of the second acrylic rod)?

 

Beak sheets and nails can be discuss but for me sclerotic rings at least add a lot to the looking, give life. It's true that I saw very few specimens in France that have them.