Mounting a Ring-Necked Pheasant (Taxidermy Process How To Overview) Wildlife Animal Art Taxidermist This video shows a basic overview of the process of mounting a pheasant in an alert standing pose.
It looks like just the skull cleaned and formed with extra molding to fill the eye sockets. Any other full mold would make the beak look too artificial, using the skull is actually smart because you can use the actual beak from the animal.
If you want to preserve a pelt, you can bury it in borax for a few weeks. As mentioned, the skin is really thin, so you gotta bury it exactly how you want it preserved or it will crack when you try and rearrange it. I had a pheasant I did this with last year. Beautiful bird, but I shot it in the head so I couldn't do a mount. Dried the pelt and hung it on a cedar plank.
Ok couple things here. Word from another taxidermist and I have competed all over. Wing set is too high. That causes distortion in anatomy. Wrong eyes very cheap quality the pupils follow you and they need to be set before gluing the head on. Raw heads on pheasants need to be wheeled like the skin I still saw meat on there. On the anatomy distortion you can tell he's having trouble with the side pocket. It's supposed to hang down and forward and you you need is a little caulking underneath it should never be forced. The wings are too forward as well because the skin buckled at the nape and there's a bellow in the chest. If the wings are correct it should all fall together so easy. And last thing never use caulk as a filler. Way too much in the head
