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16 U.S.C. § 705 — Transportation or importation of migratory birds; when unlawful
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It shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or district to or through another State, Territory, or district, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the State, Territory, or district in which it was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried.
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It shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or district to or through another State, Territory, or district, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the State, Territory, or district in which it was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured, killed, or taken, or from which it was shipped, transported, or carried.
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**(a) In general** Unless and except as permitted by regulations made as hereinafter provided in this subchapter, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or in any manner, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to barter, barter, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, export, import, cause to be shipped, exported, or imported, deliver for transportation, transport or cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried, or receive for shipment, transportation, carriage, or export, any migratory bird, any part, nest, or egg of any such bird, or any product, whether or not manufactured, which consists, or is composed in whole or part, of any such bird or any part, nest, or egg thereof, included in the terms of the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916 (39 Stat. 1702), the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded February 7, 1936, the United States and the Government of Japan for the protection of migratory birds and birds in danger of extinction, and their environment concluded March 4, 1972, and the convention between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the conservation of migratory birds and their environments concluded November 19, 1976.
**(b) Limitation on application to introduced species**
(1) **In general** — This subchapter applies only to migratory bird species that are native to the United States or its territories.
(2) **Native to the United States defined**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraph (B), in this subsection the term “native to the United States or its territories” me
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The duties and powers of the Department of the Interior include the preservation, distribution, introduction, and restoration of game birds and other wild birds. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to adopt such measures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and to purchase such game birds and other wild birds as may be required therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States and Territories. The object and purpose of this Act is to aid in the restoration of such birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto where the same have become scarce or extinct, and also to regulate the introduction of American or foreign birds or animals in localities where they have not heretofore existed.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 705
(i) the days selected—
(I) may only include the hunting of
duck, geese, swan, merganser, coot,
moorhen, and gallinule species that are
eligible for hunting under the applicable
annual Federal framework;
(II) are not more than 14 days before or
after the Federal framework hunting
season for ducks, mergansers, and coots;
and
(III) are otherwise consistent with the
Federal framework; and
(ii) the total number of days in a hunting
season for any migratory bird species, in-
cluding any days selected under subpara-
graph (A), is not more than 107 days.
(C) LIMITATION.—A State may combine the
2 days allowed for youths with the 2 days al-
lowed for veterans and members of the
Armed Forces on active duty under subpara-
graph (A), but in no circumstance may a
State have more than a total of 4 additional
days added to its regular hunting season for
any purpose.
(3) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall pro-
mulgate regulations in accordance with this
subsection for the Federal framework for mi-
gratory bird hunting for the 2019–2020 hunting
season and each hunting season thereafter.
(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, § 3, 40 Stat. 755; June 20,
1936, ch. 634, § 2, 49 Stat. 1556; 1939 Reorg. Plan
No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat.
1433; Pub. L. 105–312, title I, § 102, Oct. 30, 1998,
112 Stat. 2956; Pub. L. 116–9, title IV, § 4301, Mar.
12, 2019, 133 Stat. 764.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2019—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–9 added subsec. (c).
1998—Pub. L. 105–312 designated existing provisions as
subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
1936—Act June 20, 1936, substituted ‘‘conventions’’ for
‘‘convention’’ in two places.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1936 AMENDMENT
Act June 20, 1936, ch.
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