They should have just hung around wind farms
Bald & Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA)
https://www.animallaw.info/intro/bald-golden-eagle-protection-act-bgepa
This law is very harsh, and these guys are likely going to prison for a very long time.
He should have gone to a wind farm and harvested the eagles killed by the turbines.
(Simon Paul)
That’s too bad. I really liked “Kodachrome” too.
I guess I can be nostalgic and listen to “The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald” - it’s in my book 📗📘📕: “Astonishing Tales of the Sea”
My husband, an American Indian, once asked if he could have an eagle feather that had dropped from a caged eagle at a zoo. “Absolutely not. It’s against federal law”, he was told, which is true. He has, on occasion, been given an eagle feather by a member of tribes who were allowed to have them, but he passed them on to other Indians.
But not a peep about all the birds and bats killed by the wind industry!
A physician from Corinth, Mississippi, killed hundreds of raptors because they were interfering with his quail hunting hobby. They slapped him on the hand and he skated. I don’t hold out a lot of faith in the Department of the Interior making a case out of this.
Ill eagle immigration.
Undocumented Avians