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Pat B:
I know we've gone over this many times before here on the message board but with the article, "Beach Found Feathers", by Charles Palmer in the newest edition of PA I thought I'd write a letter to the editor(which I just did) about found feathers and also bring it up here again. Most found feathers are illegal to possess. Only game birds and non-native bird feathers can legally be possessed. This isn't a new law. The Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918 was implemented to protect song birds, sea birds and wading birds from plume hunters collecting feathers to adorn fashionable lady's hats back in the late 1800's and early 1900's devastating bird populations.
Whether or not you think this is a worthwhile law, it is the law of the land and should be obeyed.
For more info look up the "Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918". 

ksnow:
I found that article curious also.  Around here there are thousands of gull feathers, but they have to lay where they fall.  I asked a warden about feathers, and his simple response was, "if you can't hunt it, you can't possess it."

Kyle

TSA:
yup, i know up here in Cunuckopia, there are eagle feathers all over the beaches, and we cant touch them!
but we get enough goose feathers to not have to worry!

good point Pat, thanks!

Buck67:
I did the same thing once.  I spent a month in Florida on the beach and collected a wonderful assortment of feathers.  Then I reread the Migratory Game Bird law and dumped them all into the trash.

We had a friend get a $125 fine from a conservation officer for wearing a Blue Jay feather in her hat.  I can't imagine how much a quiver of arrows with Pelican feathers would cost.

upstatenybowyer:
I had no idea. Thanks Pat.  ;)

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