Bird Taxidermy Tips

A few simple steps help preserve gamebirds in the field for freezing, shipping and mounting.

I'd like to have five minutes with the guy who started the notion of putting a trophy bird in a lady's stocking," said Todd Huffman of Birdman Studios in Trinidad, Colorado. He is gritting his teeth as he says it, and I have the feeling the guy he's referring to would have a really bad five minutes. "Think about it," he said. "The pantyhose sticks to the blood, and when you remove the bird, it pulls out chunks of feathers. The guy that started that practice has ruined more birds than all the beginning taxidermists combined.

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