In background reading for a book review I’m preparing, I ran across this tidbit in Bernd Heinrich’s Ravens in Winter (1989). Apparently, although shooting crows is legal in almost every state, with no bag limit,
Incongruously, it is illegal to tamper with the nest of a crow, and any researcher who wants to study them must get state and federal permits. Having a pet crow is strictly against the law. (Why? Much can be learned from a live crow, little from a thousand dead ones.)
I guess we don’t need to get into the inconsistencies of the law in this country, though…