look what I caught!!!

[theFox]

Crows can be taken when in season.

The migratory bird act has all kinds of outs.

You should talk to the wildlife folks and you'll soon discover that the laws are rather patchwork. This goes right down to the local area.

For example:

CROW (Split Season)............ date dependent upon the wildlife management unit you are hunting in there is no bag limit on crows.

You cannot take a Raven.

Please remember this is in Maine.

I've been known to do a bit of hunting over the last several decades.

It pays to pay attention to the laws.

In a lot of cases it is illegal to use traps, you have to understand that the hunting and trapping laws are a means of generating funds to operate various conservation programs these days. What you think you can or can not do is frequently at odds with the laws.

For example that fellow from Kentucky who likes to post about the migratory bird act might be better off making certain he has the proper trapper id attached to his traps and a current trapping licensee and observes the seasons as even a land owner in Kentucky needs a trapping license to trap on his own land and there are specific trapping seasons.

 

[arherp]

I am well aware of my laws and obtain all necessary permits.

 

[pride&joy]

Quote:
LOL in your defense...

There WAS another bigger red-tailed hawk hanging around my chicken pen also...
so..it could have indeed been killed by another hawk over food... (like you said..)
All i know is, Either my roos or the bigger hawk did it.

Either one is possible.


AND to the OP..good job mamma hen!

That is one tough hen! I had also posted on the other thread that I did not think the roos could have done it but who knows ? As far as I can see hawks =0 chickens =2 oh man who would have thought it. Any chances I could have either one of you have your chickens teach mine how it’s done? I have hawks as regular visitors to my skies usually taking one of the plentiful doves?

 

[ISSOLA]

That's very small to be a Cooper's hawk. But still - could be a male Cooper's or a Sharp-shin hawk. That a very nice defensive posture from the hawk. Amazing that momma hen can attack and "disable" the hawk.

 

[LizFM]

Here's a website with a list of all species listed on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It's a pdf but if you don't have Adobe Reader you can google "list of migratory birds" and select 'quick view' to see it as a web page.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/nonpwdpubs/media/federal_migratory_birds_lists.pdf

All birds on this list (which is 38 pages long) are protected against killing or even harassment. Except for species which are subject to regulated hunting, or raptors (owls are raptors!) for which people have gotten permits discussed in previous posts.

 

[theFox]

Let me sum up the law in regards to both hunting and trapping in the US.

If the species isn't listed as having a season in the regulations for the state you are thinking about trapping or hunting in you can not trap or hunt (this means in all forms, kill, take, pursue, harass, or otherwise disturb, possess any portion there of, transport, cause to be transported, and on and on it goes) that species.

In order to legally hunt or trap you have to have a valid license or permit (in some states this includes even on your own land) and obey the laws as to how and when you can hunt or trap.

There is one exception that I am aware of (there are also likely to be others, that is how lawyers make their money): self protection.

In the US it goes this way:

Constitution
Federal Laws
State Laws
County Laws
Local Jurisdiction Laws
etc .... etc ....

A lower level can't control that which is not legally delegated to it by an upper level.

That piece of paper at the top is extremely important.

 

[henryetta]

yep, i agree, juvinal (sp) coopers. We have had 2 visitors but i have very large hens, and when the young coopers gave them a visit to 'size' them up, my girls attacked them. They dont visit 'close' anymore and God willing, it will stay this way. No babies for us

 

[buck-wild-chick]

Is it also illegal to hit them with a truck? Well actually they hit you but...

 

[guinea fowl galore]

That bird is just beautiful, especially it's wings.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Master S.M.C :

wow, that must have hurt....breaking a talon off in you!!

That is an old injury and it has healed. This makes him/her and opportunist. A missing talon is very critical to a bird’s survival.