

Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act 



Under the law of the United States the shooting of birds is proliibited from 

 sunset to half an hour before sunrise. 



The Federal migratory bird treaty act regulations prohibit throughout the 

 United States the killing at any time of the following birds: 



Band-tailed pigeon; common ground doves and scaled doves; little brown, 

 sandhill, and whooping cranes; wood duck, swans; curlews, willet, upland plover, 

 and all shore birds (except the black-bellied and golden plovers, "Wilson snipe or 

 jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; bobolinks, catbirds, 

 chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, kinglets, mar- 

 tins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull-bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, 

 swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whip- 

 poor-wills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perching birds which feed en- 

 tirely or chiefly on insects; and also auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, 

 grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins, shear- 

 waters, and terns. 



Under the Federal migratory bird treaty act the sale of all migration game 

 birds is prohibited throughout the United States, except for scientific or propagat- 

 ing purposes, or of waterfowl raised on farms or preserves under proper permit 

 from the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Where Nature Rules Supreme 



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