I know that Fish & Game can be extremely strict about raptor feathers, although I don’t know where all the boundaries lie. But I do remember being told that only people of Native American descent can legally have an eagle feather. I’m not saying anyone here can’t have one that they happen to find! 😛 And for all I know, local laws may differ from area to area. Fish & Game is undoubtedly just trying to prevent the development of a market in raptor feathers: it’d be so hard to tell which ones had been molted and which came from birds that had been shot. 🙁