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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kratter" data-source="post: 3315307" data-attributes="member: 50001">In the US at least, many birders are aware that museums accept salvaged specimens from the public. I am constantly letting folks know on local and state list-serves, facebook pages, and through other media sources that we accept salvaged specimens.  Our major sources of local birds at the Florida Museum of Natural History are wildlife rehab facilities and salvaged specimens, though that leaves some holes.  Picking up salvaged specimens in  many foreign countries is often difficult because the museums that want the specimens are in the capitol cities where tours and birders do not visit.  Keeping a specimen frozen is also difficult in tropical countries.  Exporting the specimens is a bureaucratic nightmare for the most part and entails spending weeks in the capitol.</blockquote>