Good suggestion, but I think as these are mostly American they will be out of his area (he handles mostly common British) NB the one he does list (sooty shearwater) has already been sold. I may be able to get the ducks but I need to wait for natural mortalities.

Sheila

SH-D ArchaeoZoology
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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Christyann Darwent

To: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]

Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:27 PM

Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Comparative collection

Dear Olga,

Have you tried Bodies to Bones?
http://www.btbones.co.uk/

Cheers,

Chris

2009/2/9 Olga Krylovich <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Zooarchers!

Can anybody give an advice - how to get for comparative collection (buy,
exchange, receive as a gift) skeletons (prepared or not) of listed below
species :

Gavia immer – Common loon
Gavia adamsii – Yellow-billed loon
Pterodroma inexpectata – Mottled petrel
Puffinus griseus – Sooty shearwater
Phalacrocorax urile – Red-faced cormorant
Phalacrocorax penicillatus – Brandt's cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus – Double-crested cormorant
Aythya valisineria - Canvasback
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead
Melanitta perspicillata – Surf scoter

Olga Krylovich
Laboratory of Biogeocenology and Historical Ecology
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS
Leninsky pr, 33
Moscow, Russia,
+ 119071
Tel.: 7(495)633-1417 Fax: (495)954-55-34
www.sevin.ru
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

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Interim Chair Environmental Policy & Human Ecology AOE
Department of Anthropology & Graduate Group in Ecology
University of California, Davis 95616-8522
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