I believe in the US it's illegal to "own" a native crow as a pet, without a
permit although it's legal to kill them in many areas. I'm pretty sure Bern
Heinrich talked about this in "Ravens in Winter". It may be possible to own
a non-native crow though, an exotic.

Cliff Drake
Seattle WA
cliff at cliffdrake.net



At 09:46 AM 8/10/2005, Wayne C. Weber wrote:
>Ian and Tweeters,
>
>So far as I know, there is nothing illegal about keeping crows in captivity.
>
>Crows (in fact, all species of corvids) are not protected by the Migratory
>Bird Convention between Canada and the U.S.
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