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MIGRATORY GAME BIRD REGULATIONS
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Hunter Orange of salt, grain, or other feed that could serve Field Dressing
For hunter orange requirements, see page 56. as a lure or attractant for migratory game No person shall completely field dress any
birds to, on, or over areas where hunters are migratory game bird (except doves and band-
Restrictions attempting to take them. Agriculture areas tailed pigeons) and then transport the birds
No person shall take migratory game birds: must be prepared in accordance with official from the field. The head or one fully feath-
recommendations to be legally hunted. It is a ered wing must remain attached to all such
separate offense to place or direct placement birds while being transported from the field
• With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel of bait on or adjacent to an area that causes, to one’s home or to a migratory bird preserva-
gun, shotgun slug, shotgun larger than a induces, or allows another to hunt by the tion facility.
10-gauge, punt gun, battery gun, machine aid of bait on or over a baited area. Hunters
gun, fishhook, poison, drug, explosive, or are responsible for ensuring that an area has
stupefying substance. not been baited and should verify its legality Importation
• With a shotgun capable of holding more than prior to hunting. For information regarding the importation of
three shells, in the magazine and chamber migratory birds killed in another country, hunt-
combined, unless otherwise provided. ers should consult 50 CFR 20.61 through 20.66.
• From or by means, aid, or use of a sink box Field Possession Limit One fully feathered wing must remain attached
(a low floating device, having a depression No person shall possess more than one daily to all migratory game birds being transported
affording the hunter means of concealment bag limit, tagged or not tagged, while in the between the port of entry and one’s home or to a
beneath the surface of the water.) field or while returning from the field to one’s migratory bird preservation facility. No person
• From or with the aid or use of a vehicle or vehicle, hunting camp, home, etc. shall import migratory game birds killed in any
other motor-driven land conveyance, or any foreign country except Canada, unless such
aircraft, except that paraplegics and single- or Wanton Waste birds are dressed (except as required in 20.63),
double-amputees of the legs may take from All downed migratory game birds shall be drawn, and the head and feet are removed.
any stationary motor vehicle or stationary retrieved, if possible, and retained in the cus- No person shall import migratory game birds
motor-driven land conveyance. Paraplegic tody of the hunter in the field. belonging to another person.
means an individual afflicted with paralysis
of the lower half of the body with involvement Hunting in Two States
of both legs usually due to disease of or injury Field Tagging
A hunter who hunts in two states having
to the spinal cord. No person shall give, put or leave any mi- separate daily limits, may not exceed the largest
• From or by means of any motorboat or sail- gratory game birds at any place or in the cus- number of birds that can legally be taken in one
boat unless the motor has been completely tody of another person unless the birds are of the states in which they take birds.
shut off and/or the sail furled, and its pro- tagged by the hunter with the hunter’s name,
gress therefrom has ceased. signature and address, total number of birds
• By the use or aid of live decoys. All live, tame involved by species and the dates such birds Dual Violation
or captive ducks and geese shall be removed were killed. Violations of state migratory game bird regu-
for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to Tagging is required if the birds are being lations are also violations of federal regulations.
hunting, and confined within an enclosure transported by another person for the hunter,
which substantially reduces the audibility or if the birds have been left for cleaning, stor- Additional Information
of their calls and totally conceals such tame age (including temporary storage), shipment, For a more complete summary of federal
birds from the sight of migratory waterfowl. or taxidermy services. regulations, visit wildlifedepartment.com.
• Using records or tapes of migratory bird
calls, or sounds or electronically ampli- Possession of Live Birds
fied imitations of bird calls, unless other- Wounded birds shall be immediately killed Reference
wise provided. and included in the daily limit. Federal regulations related to migratory
• By driving, rallying, or chasing birds with game birds are located in Title 50, Code of
any motorized conveyance or any sailboat to Federal Regulations, Part 20, Caution: more
put them in range of the hunters. Shipment restrictive regulations may apply to National
• By the aid of baiting on or over any baited No person shall ship migratory game birds Wildlife Refuges open to public hunting. For
areas where a person knows or reasonably unless the package is marked on the outside additional information of federal regulations,
should know that the area is or has been with the name and address of the person contact Resident Agent-In-Charge, U.S. Fish &
baited. A baited area is considered to be sending the birds, the name and address of Wildlife Service, (405) 715-0617.
baited for 10 days after complete removal the person to whom the birds are being sent,
of any bait. Baiting includes placing, expos- and the number of birds, by species, contained Nontoxic Shot
ing, depositing, distributing or scattering in the package.
Regulations
All waterfowl (ducks, mergansers and
geese) and coot hunting is restricted to use
of federally approved nontoxic shot in all ar-
eas of the state. Unless otherwise provided,
all shotgun hunting on state wetland devel-
opment units and state waterfowl refuges is
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only. Possession of lead shot while hunting
waterfowl or coots and for all shotgun hunt-
ing on state wetland development units and
state waterfowl refuges is prohibited. For more
information on federally approved nontoxic
shot types, see https://www.fws.gov/birds/
bird-enthusiasts/hunting/nontoxic.php.
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