Thanks Mark,
I appreciate your advice and as an avid bird lover I would certainly not want
anyone to even remotely consider the idea that I had taken a feather from a
bird I had killed. I knew that exporting (or even keeping) native animals was
illegal without a permit but I guess i hadn't really thought about feathers -
my cockatiel drops them all the time (makes a right mess!). I'll get friend to
consider something else.
Thanks again
Kind regards,
Dan Rayner
> On 28 Apr 2014, at 4:51 pm, "Mark Clayton" <> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> It is actually illegal to have in your possession without a permit any
> feathers from Australian birds, or other piece of wildlife and it is
> considered a serious crime to try and export them. All native animals belong
> to "the Crown" i.e the Federal, State or Territory Governments. You could
> try and get permits but this will most likely be refused as you would need
> permits from, if the feathers for example are from the ACT, the ACT
> Government, The NSW Government and the Federal Government.
>
> When you think about it, if you are caught with prohibited wildlife, the
> onus is on you to prove that you did not kill the species concerned,
> something that would be quite hard to do. I think it would be hard even for
> our Indigenous people to do something like this.
>
> Sorry to put a "dampener" on this but better to be safe than sorry.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Rayner
> Sent: Monday, 28 April 2014 4:27 PM
> To:
> Subject: [canberrabirds] Need feathers. Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
>
> Hi All,
>
> I mostly enjoy just reading posts to this group but now I have a request for
> advice.
>
> I have an anthropologist friend who works with US mid-west plains Native
> American groups (Cheyenne & Sioux etc) visiting Australia right now and he
> really wants to get them something to say thanks for their collaboration.
> These groups like tail feathers of various birds and the current feathers in
> fashion are the tail feathers of Australian black cockatoos, specifically
> white-tailed & yellow-tailed cockatoos & palm cockatoos - very difficult to
> come by in the US. I realise the most common of these in the ACT are
> yellow-tailed black cockatoos but does anyone know where around Canberra I
> might best find some tail feathers (that have been shed)?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dan Rayner
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