Bird
skull disaster |
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What luck to find a nodule containing a complete bird skull just sitting on the beach. How wrong can anyone be. The nodule had large areas of 'space' inside. Hollow in parts, I decided that prepping it was beyond my abilities so after a while I sent it off to be professionaly prepped, fully realising that it would be almost impossible to prep. However I was prepared to take a chance. The guy prepping it was also aware of the problems involved and was very reluctant to 'have a go', we were both right the nodule was as feared unpreppable with the knowledge and equipment available to us. |
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Septated
calcarius nodule as found on the beach |
The
nodule collapsed, but the surviving bone is clearly displayed. This
bird is not a bony toothed bird as the lower beak in section shows no
evidence of bony protruberences - nodule 125mm by 80mm |
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The
back of the skull - 55mm wide |
Skull
viewed from above - 65mm visible in the image |
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Lower
beak in section notice the lack of bony protruberences, - 85mm long
lower beak |
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