For any of you that are private messaging other artists and telling them to withdraw their designs because they have an eagle in it needs to stop. It was our team's idea to incorporate an eagle in our logo since we have 3 Eagle Scouts on our team. No designer on here holds the rights of all the eagles on the Internet. Each designer that has submitted an eagle has used a different eagle. If this messaging persists, we will put all the logos from that artists into the trash bin. Any artists that received this private message, please resubmit your logos. Thank you.
Rudbutler you do not own the concept to the birds. They are very different designs anyhow. It was our team that came up with the concept and asked for an eagle to be incorporated into the logos.
We were asked at look at the matter of the eagle / bird being used in the logo. At this point is it considered Rudbutler's unique idea for this contest since there is no reference prior to his entry and it is not an obvious concept as mentioned in the site's policies.
No designer should use it unless Rudbutler is willing to accept a collaboration in some form.