Just keep the feathers for yourself. Don't tell anyone? What is the big deal?
It's a freaking feather that fell out for crying out loud!
Unbelievable rubbish I reckon. I cannot wait to be charged for breathing
the air or for whatever they decide to charge for. Perhaps to photograph
wildlife, God forbid just in case you manage to sell one lousy picture. I
am in stitches! LOL!
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:21:25 +0930
>Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
>From: Denise Goodfellow <>
>To: Tony Russell <>,
> <>,
> <>,
> <>
>CC: Birding Aus <>
>
>
>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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