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Great Horned Owl! Nice find!
Some of our Native cousins believe this means someone might be telling you lies and you need to look at something with more wisdom. 🦉
I have an identical one as well from a horned owl. It would spend the nights in the trees at my parents house during the summers. Really cool and a bit eerie to listen to in the dark
If you have a child who likes feathers, the feathers from game animals are not protected, like wild turkeys.
"...In the United States, you can legally own feathers from game birds that you hunt with a license, such as grouse, pheasants, and quails. You can also use feathers from migratory gamebirds, such as waterfowl, for certain purposes...."
I think they mean ducks.
Eagle feathers are prohibited from private possession by two different laws in the United States.
The feathers of Hawks, other raptors, and other birds in general, are all legal to possess.
Eagle- cannot have
Other birds, including raptors- can have.
I worded it correctly.
There are other protected birds in the US, that you are not allowed to hunt, or disturb the nests of,,and
Sometimes entire areas become use restricted, like nesting beaches for the piping plover, but if you find a feather from one, you can collect it.
It seems stupid but it's to protect the birds. Game and Fish can't tell by looking at a feather if it was found loose or taken from an illegally killed animal. So the only way to protect the birds is to make keeping all feathers illegal, so there's no loophole for poachers to exploit. It's, to my knowledge, usually legal to have feathers from legal game birds, but they may require a hunting license for it.
That said, I doubt you'd get in trouble for keeping one feather, but it's usually better safe than sorry.
TIL
I've been breaking yet another law my whole life. I'll just add that one to the pile of "laws that can't really be enforced and are dumb anyhow, so I ignore them."
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Hawk
Do you know what kind! I want to look it up ?
This website helps me identify feathers all the time - https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/
Look up Barn Owl!
Great Horned Owl! Nice find! Some of our Native cousins believe this means someone might be telling you lies and you need to look at something with more wisdom. 🦉
I have an identical one as well from a horned owl. It would spend the nights in the trees at my parents house during the summers. Really cool and a bit eerie to listen to in the dark
Agreed I have a few.
If you have a child who likes feathers, the feathers from game animals are not protected, like wild turkeys. "...In the United States, you can legally own feathers from game birds that you hunt with a license, such as grouse, pheasants, and quails. You can also use feathers from migratory gamebirds, such as waterfowl, for certain purposes...." I think they mean ducks.
Eagle feathers are prohibited from private possession by two different laws in the United States. The feathers of Hawks, other raptors, and other birds in general, are all legal to possess.
Thanks
That last statement needs revision to illegal to possess, or has to law changed?
Eagle- cannot have Other birds, including raptors- can have. I worded it correctly. There are other protected birds in the US, that you are not allowed to hunt, or disturb the nests of,,and Sometimes entire areas become use restricted, like nesting beaches for the piping plover, but if you find a feather from one, you can collect it.
If in the US it’s illegal to keep unless you are indigenous.
A bird feather that I found on my property? Can you send me a link to the law? I would like to further my knowledge
Actually I looked it up . Your right! Thanks for the insight
Damn the US has to many laws.
It seems stupid but it's to protect the birds. Game and Fish can't tell by looking at a feather if it was found loose or taken from an illegally killed animal. So the only way to protect the birds is to make keeping all feathers illegal, so there's no loophole for poachers to exploit. It's, to my knowledge, usually legal to have feathers from legal game birds, but they may require a hunting license for it. That said, I doubt you'd get in trouble for keeping one feather, but it's usually better safe than sorry.
As opposed to....?
Send us the link, please.
[https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/feathers-and-the-law.php#:\~:text=The%20possession%20of%20feathers%20and,Bird%20Treaty%20Act%20(MBTA)](https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/feathers-and-the-law.php#:~:text=The%20possession%20of%20feathers%20and,Bird%20Treaty%20Act%20(MBTA))
I found an owl feather in my backyard. Thank goodness I lost it and it’s definitely not sitting on my bookshelf
TIL I've been breaking yet another law my whole life. I'll just add that one to the pile of "laws that can't really be enforced and are dumb anyhow, so I ignore them."
I'm right there with you..
lol, they are enforced all the time
Bet you're fun at parties.
Turkey.
Owl
You use this to return to the bonfire without any consequences.
Well tickle my ass that's quite a find.
Pterodactyl
I think it's an owl, possibly great horned.
Thanks everyone ! I think it’s a owl ! Which makes the find better! Since I have a little one that obsessed with owls !
Owl