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Mallard fletching on Oceanspray
JackCrafty:
Very nice! Too bad we can't use those migratory game bird feathers down here. :-\
broken arrow:
If you have a migratory game bird licence and harvest a duck or goose does this licence not give you the permission to have in your possession the feathers of those birds for whatever reason. I can understand if the birds were in the raptor family but do not understand why there is a restriction on migratory birds when used by the hunter that harvested them. Perhaps there is good reason for this. In your State of Texas you must have an abundance of ducks and geese like we have here in British Columbia , I would guess . Perhaps the restriction is in place because of endangered species such as the Sandhill Crane. I sure would like to know more about this .
Winston
stickbender:
Broken Arrow, I believe you are referring to the "Whooping Crane" not the Sandhill Crane, which is similar. They used to hunt Sandhill Cranes in Texas, but I don't know if they still do or not. We have plenty of them down here, but you can't hunt them. They get pretty tame, once they get used to being around you. There are two species of them. Brown ones, and grey ones. A lot of people get the grayish ones confused with the Whoopers.
Wayne
broken arrow:
Stickbender, I believe here on Vancouver Island we are too far west to see migration of the 'Whooping Crane' as it breeds in northern Alberta and the North West Territories and migrates through Great Plains to coastal Texas. We are on the western coastal flyway and only see the Sandhill Crane as it migrates south from Alaska and the Alutians. They are seen in flocks that are several thousand feet high as they head south into Washington State, Oregon and California. They make a distinctive shrill,rolling garoo-a-a-a repeated over and over. The ones we have seen on the ground are grey in color . The Sandhill Crane is a protected species here too.The immature Sandhill is brown in flight.
Winston
stickbender:
Broken arrow, there was an article in the paper down here about them, and it said there were two types of Sandhill Cranes. We had the brown ones nesting in a small lake by my Fire Station. They would nest there every year. I have seen both the color brown, and grey. Yeah, they make a neat call. We have quite a few of them down here. Like I said they can get fairly tame. Maybe there is a color phase for the grey Cranes. I don't know. I just repeated what was in the paper. I have seen the mature brown ones though with young. The young ones are cute. They look like yellow powder puffs, on long legs. I did not know the Whooping Crane did not make it that far north. Anyway, they are neat birds. ;)
Wayne
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