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Sat 22 Oct, 2005 01:54 pm
Extinct Passenger Pigeon (ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS) Flawless Example of an Extinct Bird Female Wild Pigeon
Check it out... somebody is selling a mounted Passenger Pigeon. Bids are opening at $2,499.00. What a deal!
Link to eBay listing
It's a pretty bird... they say it was a female.
Some of the bird groups are wondering if this is legal to sell.
I guess it is.
I have a friend that's unable to sell some old hides and skins unless it's to native americans
Hmmm, hadn't heard of hides & skins but I knew that walrus ivory from AK is highly regulated. Also know that people aren't supposed to deal in feathers.
when my native american friend want to make dress items for example eagle feathers - they send a letter somewhere (I forgot now) telling what they need and they get a package back of the feathers.
So the government has a large repository of feathers somewhere, eh?
something like certain animals get somehow turned over to USFish and Wildlife - roadkill, poachers, and whatever other means
Yep.. I found it: THe National Repository of Eagle Feathers!
http://www.r6.fws.gov/law/eagle/
Trade in feathers, pelts, etc.. of any endangered species is outlawed (with a few exceptions for scientific research and Native Americans) but.. I'm not sure how that applies to a species that has been extinct for some 80 years.
This is a fairly detailed discussion of the law as it applies to Passenger Pigeons:
http://www.ulala.org/P_Pigeon/Pigeon_Specimen.html
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