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Bald eagle mount, legal?
« on: August 03, 2011, 06:04:14 PM »
I'f I'm in the woods and find a dead by natural causes bald eagle still in good condition, is it legal to have it mounted?

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2011, 06:06:54 PM »
don't think you can even touch it  :(
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2011, 06:11:33 PM »
Nope, can't even take a feather, in fact if you see a feather fall off a live eagle, you cannot legaly pick it up.  Even with a state/federal educational salvage permit, you cannot.

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2011, 07:08:10 PM »
You can notify WDFW and they will donate the feathers to the local natives. >:(
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2011, 07:15:33 PM »
Actually WDFW gives it to the USFS as per federal law!  The USFS service decides on what happens to it.

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2011, 07:22:55 PM »
YOU CAN NOT EVEN HAVE A FEATHER  :o :yike:

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2011, 08:06:10 PM »
You may even be investigated for bringing up the idea
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2011, 08:23:03 PM »
Yup your toast.  I would get out to your freezer right away and get rid of the evidence cuz i just saw several black cars with black windows headed to where you live.  Expect a knock on your door in a few minutes.....
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2011, 08:28:09 PM »
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2011, 09:36:21 PM »
I have a friend who found one years ago in California, he got the authorities involved and was able to get it donated to a local museum.  He paid to have it mounted, with a permit of some sort.  But the one thing I remember is he didn't touch it until he was accompanied by a F&G warden, or some authority.  That is the first eagle I saw up close (after it was mounted), and was amazed at how big they are. 
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2011, 09:51:45 PM »
I netted one a couple years ago here on the island and got it to one of the rehab places.  It had a broken wing and was blind in one eye, probably the reason its wing had been broken, and healed, five or six other times.  It sucks that they ended up putting it down.  Not sure why some wildlife place wouldn't have wanted it.   >:(

They are definitely big birds and my hand took the sharp end of one of its talons... ouch!

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2011, 09:52:38 PM »
Wasn't there a taxidermist that got busted with one in his freezer a few year back in lakewood?

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2011, 10:15:06 PM »
The laws regarding eagles apply even to Tribes and any part of an eagle has to go to a federal office back east and it is documented and stored for distribution to tribes nationwide.  They are then processed and handled by each Tribes Wildlife Program before going to the next family on their list.  We can't sell them and they can only be passed down as a gift to family members or very close friends and you have to be an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe to possess any part of an eagle.
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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2011, 10:33:00 PM »
Wow, Thanks guys.  I had no idea

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Re: Bald eagle mount, legal?
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2011, 01:52:37 AM »
Nope, can't even take a feather, in fact if you see a feather fall off a live eagle, you cannot legaly pick it up.  Even with a state/federal educational salvage permit, you cannot.
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