Audubon insisted that birds were so plentiful in North America that no depredation—whether hunting ... fashionable women began wearing hats adorned with feathers, wings and even entire ...

Though it may look like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the punt gun was a real weapon used to hunt ducks in ...

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is banned by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, officials say.

Nearly 95 percent of Florida's shore birds had been killed by plume hunters. The Audubon Society tried unsuccessfully to persuade women not to buy hats with feathers, while the powerful millinery ...

Originally enacted to curb the plume hunting industry ... wide women's hats adorned with exotic bird plumes. The act includes bans on possessing "feathers in your yard, a dead bird on the road ...