I have a friend who works on a ranch from time to time. Every once in a while he finds feathers on the ground that he will collect. He and I both thought them to be from an owl until I found some pictures of a red-tailed buteo hawk online. I noticed that the feathers he has been collecting actually came from the wing of these raptors. I have always known that this was a protected bird, but I recently heard someone tell my friend that he should loose the feathers because he could get into legal trouble for posessing them. Is this true?
What else is illegal in such a mannor?
What else is illegal in such a mannor?