Collecting all the North America waterfowl

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Nice artistry. I have 35 of the 41. I haven’t chased any the last 2-3 years.
 
Tree ducks, mottled, greater scaup, harlequin and king eider. I lived in Alaska for years but never close to the kings.
 
Exceptional mounts @Moe324! Your favorite studio did a drake bufflehead and sharptail for me. Incredible how many mounts they cram in their workspace. Congrats on your quest!
 
Very very cool! I have hopes to mount male and female pairs the same as you in the future. My brother is working his way to completing the North American, I believe he’s at 23. He went to Mexico this last spring to get cinnamon teal.

Too notch taxidermy work as well! Congrats
 
I love bird taxidermy and have been collecting the north American waterfowl. I hope to some day figure out a way to bring African waterfowl over to have mounted by my bird taxidermist. I use fallen feathers studio in Oregon Ohio. View attachment 635482
Please add the species to the pictures. Very nice taxidermy!
 
Been shooting waterfowl since I killed my first blue winged teal when I was 8, I’ve shot every legal species except king eider, Barrow’s goldeneye and fulvous whistling duck, have all mounted except a hooded merganser. Shot a boat load but just never had one mounted.
@Moe324 those are outstanding mounts and collection and would love to see how you have them arranged in your trophy room/house.
 
Very very cool! I have hopes to mount male and female pairs the same as you in the future. My brother is working his way to completing the North American, I believe he’s at 23. He went to Mexico this last spring to get cinnamon teal.

Too notch taxidermy work as well! Congrats
@Stetsonham: I assume your Brother had to have the Taxidermy work done IN Mexico or had the duck brought into the US some-other-way? U.S. Customs decided 10 years ago (for some reason) Not to allow them to cross the border but I “think” bird taxidermy is allowed to cross. Risky allowing your bird taxidermy to be done in Mexico - hard enough to find a good bird Taxidermist in the US….but what other choice would you have ? I hunted Mexico for Ducks once - never saw a Cinnimon Teal, didn’t get the duck numbers we expected and far lower numbers then friends that went 5 years earlier. I had a great time but would Not go back —- our Guide had his truck “car jacked” at gunpoint while he was driving us back to the US Border - no one was hurt but it reinforced what a Mess Mexico is
 
Congratulations on your amazing collection @Moe324, the taxidermy is excellent.
 
I was a taxidermist and dreamed of doing all of the waterfowl in NA but never got it done. Later, I decided to hunt them all. Sadly, I never connected on the Alaska species. Thanks for sharing.
 
I was a taxidermist and dreamed of doing all of the waterfowl in NA but never got it done. Later, I decided to hunt them all. Sadly, I never connected on the Alaska species. Thanks for sharing.
Just saw a cancelation for king eider and Harli on St Paul island Alaska for week after Christmas, so it's not too late to chase them.
 
@Stetsonham: I assume your Brother had to have the Taxidermy work done IN Mexico or had the duck brought into the US some-other-way? U.S. Customs decided 10 years ago (for some reason) Not to allow them to cross the border but I “think” bird taxidermy is allowed to cross. Risky allowing your bird taxidermy to be done in Mexico - hard enough to find a good bird Taxidermist in the US….but what other choice would you have ? I hunted Mexico for Ducks once - never saw a Cinnimon Teal, didn’t get the duck numbers we expected and far lower numbers then friends that went 5 years earlier. I had a great time but would Not go back —- our Guide had his truck “car jacked” at gunpoint while he was driving us back to the US Border - no one was hurt but it reinforced what a Mess Mexico is
Did you hunt with Richard Grammer by chance?
 
Been shooting waterfowl since I killed my first blue winged teal when I was 8, I’ve shot every legal species except king eider, Barrow’s goldeneye and fulvous whistling duck, have all mounted except a hooded merganser. Shot a boat load but just never had one mounted.
@Moe324 those are outstanding mounts and collection and would love to see how you have them arranged in your trophy room/house.
I'm still building my trophy room. I made a post on it here. I need pair of barrows, pair of spoonies, Ross goose, blue goose, Drake pintail, pair of greater scuap, pair of redheads, hen white wing scooter, hen surf scoter, Drake Ruddy, and a fulvous to finish my collection. Twice last year I lost fulvous in Florida :(
The ross and blue will be hard because I hate party hunting. I don't like hunting with more then 2 guys. I want to know what I killed. Just saw a cancellation hunt for king eider in Alaska for week after Christmas $4500 and $1900 air charter.
 
I'm still building my trophy room. I made a post on it here. I need pair of barrows, pair of spoonies, Ross goose, blue goose, Drake pintail, pair of greater scuap, pair of redheads, hen white wing scooter, hen surf scoter, Drake Ruddy, and a fulvous to finish my collection. Twice last year I lost fulvous in Florida :(
The ross and blue will be hard because I hate party hunting. I don't like hunting with more then 2 guys. I want to know what I killed. Just saw a cancellation hunt for king eider in Alaska for week after Christmas $4500 and $1900 air charter.
I’m with you on the party hunting, i used to be in a club in the Mississippi delta. We all had similar ideas of waterfowling and then one of the guys had a friend join and he would say things like WE need X numbers for a limit and I would tell him I needed X for my limit and I was going to walk out with what I shot. We got rid of him but they put our land into CRP and planted all of it in trees and ruined it. Only waterfowl hunting I do much anymore is in the backyard if we have enough rain to fill the low spots I plant with rice. Or with a small group of guys that are scattered around the country, we try to meet u somewhere and hut a few days every year.
Who did you hunt with in Florida for the fulvous? Tough luck bye the way.
@Firebird was trying to set something up down there but it fell through.
 

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