#fraizer's bones

[[i live in the UK. all birds i own are legal to own. all have been taken lawfully or were found after natural death. this bird was done for a client and is not for sale]]

a Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) vs a Scottish Crossbill (Loxia scotia). these two were captive-bred hens from here in the UK. despite looking basically identical in-feather (aside from size), theres a lot of complex morphology differences that surprised me!

beautiful roe buck all finished! he is much younger than the first deer i found, and has some damage from being a roadkill victim. he also has a couple of small healed injuries on his snout. the silver on his antlers is unique amongst my bucks and hes a perfect middle between my smallest and largest 🦌

a very handsome rook found under a hedge. i will have to confirm when i work on them but i believe they were either roadkill or shot (legal in the UK as they are a 'pest' species). i will be hoping to taxidermy him and clean his skeleton!

rook all mounted up! i had some difficulties as the wire i used in the legs was not strong enough to hold him up, hence the support wire, but thankfully he came out really nice :)

one of the most intact female pheasants i have ever found, she had injuries and context consistent with being roadkill. she was an excellent weight and in rigor mortis when i found her, so she has been butchered and frozen, with her skin saved for a mount and her skull in cleaning. her name is Clover!

im going to be very slowly catalogueing all my skulls in picture form bc i realised theres a lot of specimens i never photographed finished 😅 heres a common swift (Apus apus) and a great-spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

UK based, bird remains are legal !