Tad's Taxidermy

Tad's Taxidermy works on birds, small and medium game, big game heads, lifesize mammals, African species, exotics, and novelty pieces, and also provides antler-only work.

They offer traditional game head and full-body mounts, bird and antler mounts, and creative War Bird art mounts designed to display wings, tails, and other features in custom arrangements.

Tad has practiced taxidermy since 1955, trained under leading U.S. taxidermists, and has mounts displayed in Ohio museums, colleges, and wildlife centers, backed by decades of competition experience across fish, birds, waterfowl, and mammals.

Reviews describe his work as world-class, highly artistic, and unique, with mounts that look like carefully crafted pieces of art.

Most War Bird DIY faces with mounting kits are priced around $117, 3D art series faces around $145, smaller goddess and warrior faces around $85, and accessories such as reproduction claws, teeth, and horns typically range from about $5 to $30, with Priority Mail shipping often offered as a flat $14.75 regardless of quantity and discounts for multiple DIY face orders; faces ship unpainted by default, with prefinished options available at extra cost by calling ahead.

Most stock faces and accessories ship by Priority Mail shortly after ordering, while certain custom items such as the Tassi Amazon Warrior Queen face note at least two weeks for delivery, and reviewers mention that while some work may take a little longer, they feel the results are worth the wait.

The studio also sells finished War Bird mounts and polyurethane faces with embedded glass eyes, offers instructional how-to videos and training content for DIY projects, produces custom habitat-style displays for museums and institutions, and provides mounting supplies such as claws, teeth, horns, leather bases, and skull inserts.