Subject: Re: Feather collections
Date: Feb 25 16:23:59 1998
From: gtoffic - gtoffic at halcyon.com


At 04:09 PM 2/25/98 -0800, Rob Saeker wrote:
>>(There's a likely future Tweeters thread: number and contents of
>>found feather collections.)
>>
>
>I don't know about that one. How many people are going to reveal the
>complete contents of their feather collections, when doing so might lead to
>their arrest? You do know that it's illegal to possess any raptor feathers,
>regardless of how you came to have them?
>
>Rob Saecker
>Olympia
>

I believe that the Federal Migratory Bird Act prohibits possession of any
migratory bird feathers without a permit, not just raptors

Greg

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