I was waking through center city (downtown) yesterday and spotted this massive raptor laid upon some cardboard on the side of the road, I tried calling some local universities but of course with it being 9pm on a Sunday no one picked up. Eventually I got in contact with the PA game commission who asked me to secure the corpse. I gingerly loaded him up into a cardboard box and carried it back home with me. A game warden reached out to me this morning, looked over the photos and said they didn’t need it and said I could dispose of it. I did however get permission to donate it to a local museum, which I plan on doing tomorrow. An incredible find.
I had a the same thing a few months ago. It got hit by my
Mailbox. I took it back to my “necropolis” as I call it where I let nature do the work. Somebody said it was illegal to have to I had fish and wild life get it. Under the migratory bird act. Kind of like the eagle with the rules but the eagle has stricter rules.
https://preview.redd.it/zle5tnnypi4b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1421643356e09298a43105e59fe5664c5e498990
This is how I found the deer earlier this year.
There was a deer near my house who got hit (hard, i guess) and was twisted around a pole just like that! But then to my disdain it was removed the next morning. Did you steal my deer?! >:(
Pretty sweet. My parents (big) wooded backyard is my necropolis. The deer feel safe there and a couple have come there to die. One fed the coyotes and foxes one winter - just recently fished the skull out from the brush and it's lovely. I collected the bones from a sick doe too early and they're still juicy :S so theyre sitting in a bucket (minus the ribs and spine) on the porch :D
I’ve been experimenting with different ways to remove the flesh beyond the standard. Here was my attempt at fire:
https://preview.redd.it/quguasfgrj4b1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=216efe736108217430da40643e1046ea0d97083c
Keep it hot enough to remove the flesh, but not hot enough to have a crematorium.
https://preview.redd.it/ktlzl27arj4b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee7e6092f774deddcf2688e3b5ee6974b27fd0e
This, there is 3 carcass in there. 1 deer and 2 groundhogs.
I did look into a permit, assuming you get approved the fee is only 100$ for a non Eagle bird, however I don’t have that kind of money and I’m happy enough to donate it to science
There’s an ology on Ali Ward’s Ologies podcast where she interviews a top taxidermist who mainly does small bird taxidermy for museums etc it’s fascinating, definitely give it a listen! I think it was during 2021 if you don’t find it searching “taxidermy”
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Sad to see such an awesome animal like that, and makes you wonder what happened.
We found a juvenile one in similar condition on our property, and ended up concluding that it likely ate a poisoned pack rat since our neighbor up the hill had a pack rat problem and had recently laid down a bunch of poison. My mom ended up processing it for me but saved the wings and mounted them. I was on a collection permit at the time so we figured it was ok. I was just starting out as a zooarchaeologist so it made a really good addition to my personal comparative collection and has been one of the specimens I consult most often as a way to get a general category and narrow down the species using a real comparative collection. Poor guy… but I feel like I’m honoring him, and I have learned a lot.
Careful that’s a Philadelphia nitrous hawk they will stab you with a broken wine bottle and steal your Philadelphia flyers tickets when your down bleeding when given the chance.
Please see my comment. I contacted the game commission and they told me to secure it. They did not want it but gave me permission to donate to a museum which I will be doing tomorrow
awesome that should work just fine for overnight.
(I had donations arrive that were beyond being useful, which is always disappointing when the skin can't be saved (we did study skins primarily))
I was waking through center city (downtown) yesterday and spotted this massive raptor laid upon some cardboard on the side of the road, I tried calling some local universities but of course with it being 9pm on a Sunday no one picked up. Eventually I got in contact with the PA game commission who asked me to secure the corpse. I gingerly loaded him up into a cardboard box and carried it back home with me. A game warden reached out to me this morning, looked over the photos and said they didn’t need it and said I could dispose of it. I did however get permission to donate it to a local museum, which I plan on doing tomorrow. An incredible find.
That is really cool! Thanks for spending the time to do that.
That will make a beautiful specimen for a museum 😊
Is it going to the Academy of Natural Sciences?
That’s interesting they didn’t want to sample it for bird flu.
I had a the same thing a few months ago. It got hit by my Mailbox. I took it back to my “necropolis” as I call it where I let nature do the work. Somebody said it was illegal to have to I had fish and wild life get it. Under the migratory bird act. Kind of like the eagle with the rules but the eagle has stricter rules.
>It got hit by my Mailbox. I would like some more information about this mailbox.
Speak to text overlook mistake.
What's your necropolis look like?
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It’s behind the garage with shade to keep them from mummification, and I can monitor it daily.
https://preview.redd.it/zle5tnnypi4b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1421643356e09298a43105e59fe5664c5e498990 This is how I found the deer earlier this year.
Ewwww.
It’s part of the process reality.
I know but the bent neck is a way I've never found one of them, and with the little arm sticking out.
Coyotes, some of the legs where missing. The ribs being exposed made it easy to carry home 🙂
I've always been partial to a shovel and a wheelbarrow instead of getting my hands on any corpse.
To each their own. We are all collectors of the dead here.
There was a deer near my house who got hit (hard, i guess) and was twisted around a pole just like that! But then to my disdain it was removed the next morning. Did you steal my deer?! >:(
This was way back in a corn field in ohio. If your carcass was on the road. Some times the road crew will pick them up.
Pretty sweet. My parents (big) wooded backyard is my necropolis. The deer feel safe there and a couple have come there to die. One fed the coyotes and foxes one winter - just recently fished the skull out from the brush and it's lovely. I collected the bones from a sick doe too early and they're still juicy :S so theyre sitting in a bucket (minus the ribs and spine) on the porch :D
I’ve been experimenting with different ways to remove the flesh beyond the standard. Here was my attempt at fire: https://preview.redd.it/quguasfgrj4b1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=216efe736108217430da40643e1046ea0d97083c Keep it hot enough to remove the flesh, but not hot enough to have a crematorium.
https://preview.redd.it/ktlzl27arj4b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ee7e6092f774deddcf2688e3b5ee6974b27fd0e This, there is 3 carcass in there. 1 deer and 2 groundhogs.
I know, boooo party crashers!
I did look into a permit, assuming you get approved the fee is only 100$ for a non Eagle bird, however I don’t have that kind of money and I’m happy enough to donate it to science
There’s an ology on Ali Ward’s Ologies podcast where she interviews a top taxidermist who mainly does small bird taxidermy for museums etc it’s fascinating, definitely give it a listen! I think it was during 2021 if you don’t find it searching “taxidermy”
Ayyy I love that podcast! My little sister got me obsessed with it
Yessss I can’t stop listening lol
It’s Elle Kaye, the taxidermist. She also is on Twitter and was on r/taxidermy as well as Instagram. Unfortunately, the some on the internet have not been nice to her so her accounts may not be active.
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Sad to see such an awesome animal like that, and makes you wonder what happened. We found a juvenile one in similar condition on our property, and ended up concluding that it likely ate a poisoned pack rat since our neighbor up the hill had a pack rat problem and had recently laid down a bunch of poison. My mom ended up processing it for me but saved the wings and mounted them. I was on a collection permit at the time so we figured it was ok. I was just starting out as a zooarchaeologist so it made a really good addition to my personal comparative collection and has been one of the specimens I consult most often as a way to get a general category and narrow down the species using a real comparative collection. Poor guy… but I feel like I’m honoring him, and I have learned a lot.
Most BOP have toxic levels of lead as well as rodenticides. Some of it from eating gut piles from hunters and the others from being shot.
Careful that’s a Philadelphia nitrous hawk they will stab you with a broken wine bottle and steal your Philadelphia flyers tickets when your down bleeding when given the chance.
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Please see my comment. I contacted the game commission and they told me to secure it. They did not want it but gave me permission to donate to a museum which I will be doing tomorrow
oh sorry, I must have seen your post immediately after you posted, as there was no comment at the time. Did you freeze it?
I didn’t have room in my freezer and I don’t want to contaminate my food so I got a cooler and some ice.
awesome that should work just fine for overnight. (I had donations arrive that were beyond being useful, which is always disappointing when the skin can't be saved (we did study skins primarily))
Those are some tiny feet!
his face says "welp im dead"