When I told him to go ahead, he hesitated, then said he'd "probably end up
with egg on (his) face". A magistrate friend told me she'd have thrown the
case out of court.
When I see the damage wrought by developers, by weeds such as Gamba grass,
and by agriculture and hard-hooved grazing animals, I do wonder if we've
lost our sense of proportion.
Denise
on 12/2/09 3:05 PM, Tony Russell at wrote:
> Bureaucracy gone bonkers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denise Goodfellow
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:01 PM
> To: Tony Russell; ; ;
>
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
>
>
> A client of mine told me that he and a friend were threatened with
> prosecution for hopping out of their car to look at a dead snake in
> northern Queensland.
>
> I was threatened similarly for taking a couple of dead snakes to my
> son's class to teach the kids how to tell the difference between
> venomous and non-venomous.
> Denise
>
>
> on 12/2/09 2:47 PM, Tony Russell at wrote:
>
>> I picked up a tail feather in about 2000 (which I still have) of a
>> Glossy Cockatoo on Kangaroo Island, South Oz. When I walked into the
>> rangers office at Seal Bay with the feather stuck in my hat band I
>> was immediately accosted by one of the rangers who warned me that to
>> even pick up and keep a feather is illegal. Be careful out there all
>> you feather collectors.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> On Behalf Of
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:57 AM
>> To: ;
>> Cc:
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
>>
>>
>> I got exactly the same too! I thought I was special. LOL!!!
>>
>> Glad I visit this list daily. This fellow is not going to get my Sooty
>
>> and Powerful Owl feathers then, neither the Tawny Frogmouths nor
>> others..... (Of course all were found on the ground or dropped by
>> rehabilitated birds)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Akos :)
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