When the body, wings and head of your bird are all baked (cured) and are firmly attached together, it is time to make the bird's tail. Tails on these birds were traditionally made of fine spun glass fiber. Nylon fly tying thread gives a very similar effect in miniature. Most of these miniature birds have silver or pale yellow tails.
To fit the tail on the bird, cut five to seven pieces of nylon fly tying thread one inch long. Nylon thread is very shiny and splits very easily into tiny sections. More pieces are fine but do not use fewer than five for a full tail. Gather your pieces of thread together so they are almost all starting at the same point, and trim them so they are even on one end. Attach a tiny bit of glue to the even ends of the threads and insert them into the hole you made in the bird's body for the tail. You should be able to press the threads into the hole using a pin or the find end of your tweezers. When the thread are anchored securely in the bird's body, set the body aside for the glue to dry. You may need to add a bit more glue to the hole to fill it after you have placed the threads in the hole. Do not allow glue to spread from the body up the threads. You want to keep the glue confined to the hole on the birds body, not glue the bottom half of the tail together.
Use tweezers to straighten the threads out into a flat fan shape across the back of the bird as shown in the photo. You don't want the threads clumped together in the center, or unevenly spaced across the back of the bird.
