(first of all, i'll say right away that my english is intermediate. i don't know how to write a location, but i wrote it in the title)
i was walking in the park (park yntymak) and came across the corpse of a raven. i took it for myself and later cleaned it in my apartment. maceration of the skull itself took a long time, but I managed to get it done. i suppose it could be; corvus corone orientalis. i did morphometrics and craniametrics, and the dimensions seemed to be correct, as did the biogeography. later, i cleaned off the remaining rot with a soft brush and water. i then soaked it in 3% hydrogen peroxide — and this is what happened. i also saved the rhamphothecae (keratinous upper beaks) before maceration and inserted them. it turned out well. the only thing is, i lost the sclerotic rings. but I think it's okay, they were small. (as for the other bones, there are some, but i'm not working on them yet. i'll macerate them later somehow) what do you think?
and another question; how do you pick up bones with your bare hands when you're hunting for them? unfortunately, i live in the city. i don't have access to the forest or any wild biogeocenoses. like, aren't you disgusted? i don't judge, on the contrary, i'm interested. thank you