>If you ever have the chance to pick up a cormorant feather and take it
>home, do! Seeing the special characteristics Bill (Nancy?) LaF outlined
>above is really neat. I have one, a secondary from a DC cormorant; you
>pick it up, it feels HEAVY, solid. If you dip it in water, the water
>doesnt bead up on the surface, it soaks right in. It's like playing with
>a dinasaur feather or something. Unique, and fun to try and stump your
>birding friends with.
>
>Chris Hill

Although of course it's technically illegal to possess them, such feathers
are actually not that difficult to find if you look for them along the high
tide line at ocean beaches during the summer and especially the fall, when
most birds are molting their flight feathers.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416