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--001a113a5ace9ce18104fb91c09e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 All, The skeleton collection at StFX continues to grow with recent contributions from Nancy Dowd, Alix d'Entremont and Chris Callaghan. I have finished the skeletons of the Snowy Owl and Turkey Vulture, the Broad-winged Hawk is next. The photos aren't great...sorry, they were taken with my iPod. owl: http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/snow/IMG_0260.jpg vulture: http://people.stfx.ca/rlauff/photos/snow/IMG_0459.jpg Thanks to the many contributors, the bird skeleton collection at StFX now numbers 139 species (save for one parrot and a peahen, maybe a few others, they're all native), 356 specimens. To put this in perspective, there are ~180 breeding species in the province (I don't know off hand what the total number of species recorded is, but we have a number of wintering species [e.g. Common Redpoll] and vagrants [e.g. egrets, mostly from Tom Kavanaugh and Steven Bushell, Canso...thanks guys!] in the collection as well. The collection is strong in feeder birds (sadly, many, including our one cardinal, due to cat kills) and raptors. Many shorebirds are not represented at all (snipe, killdeer, woodcock and a few others are), many sea ducks aren't (e.g. any of the scaup), most pelagics are needed, so are all the terns. Anyone who wants to contribute a found-dead bird, or a legally hunted duck or goose, please get in touch. If you're not sure if it's something we need, just ask. We, like any organization with a collection, have limited space and I may not be able to take everything.
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