For the last few seasons, I’ve been keeping an eye out for a special bird. It could be a wild long-tailed rooster, or a big greenhead, or maybe a nice drake wood duck. Mostly, I just wanted to mount a ...

Victor Cole knows his birds. Retired from a career as a biologist, he does part-time bird taxidermy. “I’ve mounted everything from alligator to deer head to foxes to bobcats, but I just like birds.” ...

If you walked into Paul Burczycki’s Algonac taxidermy shop in November, after peak hunting seasons, he said things might look “pretty gruesome.” By early March, there’s a lot more nearly completed ...

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, we knew there was just too much to cover in one story. We captured examples of dozens of critters taxidermist Edward Harden and his team have mounted, but the birds really caught our attention.