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It looks like a secondary flight feather from a Yellow Shafted Flicker. This is not the primary flight feather that is used for the Yellow Yammer, but rather one of the less yellow feathers closer to the body. Most birds shed their flight feathers this time of year, so finding one here and there is not unusual.

 

See photo:

https://leesbirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/northernflicker-yellowshafted-bioquick-news.jpg?w=545

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That is an impressive answer. About all I could have said is "from a bird".

 

That's some of what makes this site so special. People that know their s**t and are willing to help.

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Remember the Migratory Bird Act makes it illegal to possess migratory bird feathers. Raptor feathers are also illegal.

 

The MBTA makes it:

unlawful at any time, by any means or in any manner, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to barter, barter, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, cause to be shipped, exported, or imported, deliver for transportation, transport or cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried, or receive for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, any migratory bird, any part(this includes feathers), nest, or egg of any such bird, or any product, whether or not manufactured, which consists, or is composed in whole or part, of any such bird or any part, nest, or egg thereof.

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Some migratory birds are legal to hunt and to possess; ducks, geese, rail, snipe, coot, rail, gallinule, dove, sandhill crane, woodcock for example and most raptors migrate, the Treaty and the Act go into specifics by species.

( https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/policies-and-regulations/MBTAListofBirdsFinalRule.pdf ) ( https://www.fws.gov/birds/management/managed-species/migratory-bird-treaty-act-protected-species.php )

The light geese especially need more hunting impact because they are eating all their breeding habitat and multiplying at rates that will eventually lead to their extinction.

Also English sparrow, collared dove and starling are examples of invasive species that are not protected at all but do migrate.

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backyard find. not much tying with this one. no bird around looking for it. no feather police around either

 

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