For those of you who want to go beyond IDing a feather to a bird, now you
can ID a bird bone....

I am forwarding this from SAWWHETNET, where it was posted this morning...

"The address to this web site was posted on the ONTBirds list
today. It may be of use to some here and is an interesting site

<http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Natural_History/Bones/Introduction.htm>

A brief snippet from the Intro page

"This program is designed to be used by archeologists, biologists and
forensic scientists. Identifying bird bones to species is a labour
intensive process. This program was created as a time saving tool to
help identify bird bones to species. This program is a "guide" and is
intended to be used with a comparative faunal collection. The program
works on the simple concept of sorting out the long bones by their
total length, combined with a visual aid using photographic images."

-Jamie Acker
owler at sounddsl.com
Bainbridge Island, WA