Found this feather over a foot long on a tennessee road.

>>2207124
im a girl lol

>>2207119
Canadian goose or heron probably. I could see that being a tail feather from a goose

It's the ass feather of the legendary ThunderBird!

>>2207133
I doubt goose but heron is a good guess. I found an entire wing by an osprey nest and it was huge.
Can you take a picture of the other side of it, OP? That's the underside and Ican sort see some bands near the end of the quill.

>>2207128
I need something for size reference other than your hand. Post feet.

>>2207119
Phorusrhacid probably.

>>2207119
a bird

Possession of feathers and nests was made illegal (with certain exceptions) by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 that was passed in response to the severe decline in bird populations because they were hunted to make women’s hats. The hobby (and the business) of collecting eggs and nests also was impacting bird populations.

The law was written because it would be difficult for enforcement officers to prove one way or the other whether a person had picked the feathers/nests off the ground or had killed the bird or pulled a viable nest out of a tree. By making it illegal to possess them, regardless of how they were obtained, that difficulty was avoided.

The law covers 836 species, including 58 legal game birds.

tl;dr: OP is a criminal.

>>2207583
List more laws that aren't enforced pls.

>>2207607
>implying the CIA can't track IPs

>>2207609
>implying they care about one goddamned feather

Yep, Brown recluse

>>2207119
Trim your fucking nails

>Found this feather over a foot long on a tennessee road.
turkey.

>>2207119
pretty sure that´s a primary flight feather from a big bird, is it possible that it is a feather from some kind of raptor? (but not an owl feather)

See what´s native to your area and compare colors and shape
I´m from europe so I know pretty much nothing about north american birds

>>2208180
forgot to mention it might also be very likely that it is some kind of waterfowl, like >>2207124
said