And there are a few egret and heron feathers as well.
One immediate result was that all eagle, egret, bird-of-paradise, and heron feathers, a total of $25,000 worth, werewithdrawn and burned Speaks about other notable detection cases by Mr. Pough.
Ostrich feathers were shipped in from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Madagascar, and dyed black, green, lilac, rose, sky blue, and yellow; heron feathers were brought from Germany and Turkey to adorn the Knights of the Holy Spirit.
To get there, I pass a wild, marshy spot on the northwest banks of the Lake where, a couple of years ago, I saw a great blue heron, feathers all fluffed out to keep warm, wintering in the park.
An introductory lineup of headgear from across the Americas delivers that news in a stroke, as our eyes move from a big, bright, halolike circle of macaw and heron feathers from Brazil; to a checkerboard-patterned Peruvian pillbox cap; to a Haida headdress from British Columbia with the carved head of a cosmic beast, glinting with shell inlay, positioned like a miner's lamp.
The hat is a Tudor bonnet of black velvet with a plume of white ostrich and black heron feathers.
Clara and Rebecca are skipping up the path; Clara is clutching a heron's feather.
The fourth and last fortress was Forchtenstein, where the Esterhazys display priceless family treasures and memorabilia that ring with the Hapsburg, Hungarian and Ottoman histories of this borderland: a Turkish officer's tent, paper-thin ivory vessels, a heron's feather from a magnate's hat.
Ostrich feathers were particularly liked for this purpose, although those most in demand overall have been the marabou stork feathers, aigrettes of the heron, and feathers of the various species of hummingbirds and birds of paradise.
It escapes unharmed but two spindly herons come within a feather's breadth of being eaten.
