Quote Originally Posted by EagleJCS View Post
Just my opinion:
If you do wind up wearing a feather, make sure it looks absolutely nothing like an eagle feather. (i.e., it should probably be long, slender, striped, and lay back along the hat rather than stand tall.)
I don't often wear a balmoral these days. If I do, though, I sometimes wear one of my parrot's scarlet tail-feathers on it (or if I'm feeling REALLY jaunty, one of the long black primary flight feathers from the tips of her wings). They being direct gifts from the lass herself, I have no qualms about that. No one has ever taken offense, and on more than one occasion I've been eagerly asked, "Do you have an African Grey?".