Wood Carving Artist Crafts Lifelike Eagle Feathers


By Zac Schultz | February 18, 2014

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Winnebago wood carver-artist Tom Tyers hand carves and paints feathers that are so lifelike that people often mistake his work for real feathers and warn him that most people are federally prohibited from owning feathers from any native migratory bird.

Zac Schultz

Zac Schultz is a reporter for the “Wisconsin Life” project who thinks three-minute stories and one-line bio descriptions are woefully brief.
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