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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2015, 07:46:09 pm »
Quote from: adb on February 14, 2015, 09:58:44 am
Crows are the vector species for West Nile Virus. I don't want to have anything to do with them.

But it is the mosquito that will give you the West Nile Virus, not the crow. 

This is one of those where you will want to contact your local resources.  And it wouldn't hurt to ask several different sources, too!
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2015, 08:03:31 pm »
After it's bitten a crow with the virus...
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2015, 09:17:16 am »
Eddie is on point with why we have a crow season in the states. It is federally protected to appease Mexico in North American migratory birds.

As long as the crows are harvested during a legal season and with legal equipment, then the feathers are fine to use for fletching.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2015, 12:28:03 pm »
 As long as it's not a rapor you canuse it.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2015, 03:15:41 pm »
Not quite right, Roy. You can't use any native song birds, only legally obtained game birds.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2015, 09:10:50 am »
Ravens and seagulls are protected as well.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2015, 09:28:09 am »
Hmmm... I didn't know that Mexico influenced our laws on crows.  That's interesting.

There are crow feathers for sale in ebay that are harvested in the UK.  To have them shipped here they have to pass customs.  Has anyone ever ordered these?  Any problems? I'm just curious.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2015, 09:47:27 am »
In Wyoming you can shoot crows, but not ravens or magpies!  So the saying goes "if it hits the ground dead, its a crow"!  We have a real problem with the loss of numbers of sage chickens and the oil companies get the blame for building roads across breeding grounds.  The sad thing is you can not protect one species without causing real problems with others.  The crows and especially the ravens eat the sage chicken eggs and as there are millions of them the natural balance is upset.  I have not had much luck with crow feathers for arrows.  Joe
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2015, 08:29:50 pm »
I don't know about from the UK to the US, but you can't ship wild bird feathers from the US to Canada.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2015, 10:12:09 pm »
Here's a  link to the original memo on the proposal for a crow season by the US Fish and Wildlife service in 1973. It explains some of the birds involved with this new proposal.

http://www.fws.gov/news/Historic/NewsReleases/1973/19730204.pdf

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Offline Chief RID

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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2015, 04:25:28 am »
So the answer is yes. You can use crow feathers in an arrangement and send it to the white house to be used for a gala. But I would not.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2015, 12:10:00 pm »
OK since we can only hunt crows on Thursday Friday,and Saturday in Ohio, does that mean I can only use them on my arrows those days ?  >:D :laugh:
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2015, 11:10:35 am »
California has a 124 day crow season with a daily bag limit of 24 with the exception of a few areas
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #28 on: February 22, 2015, 06:17:10 pm »
Here in Michigan the seasons are August and September/February and March, unless nuisance or health hazard. Feathers would be legal for fletching, not sure if you could sell them. It seems like they would be pretty short.
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Re: Is it legal now to use crow feathers?
« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2015, 09:14:29 am »
So the saying goes "if it hits the ground dead, its a crow"!  Love that Joe. ;) :) You can shoot them anytime in TN. Guess I could use them for fletching, but only when I run out of Primary Turkey feathers in the left wing version. picky picky I know.  ;) ;D ;D ;D
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