Graham guardian., 1913-10-10
MIGRATARY BIRDS
U. S. Game Laws Now Of
Interest to Arizona
Hunters

Under the provisions or law
passed by Congress in March 1913,
(37 Stats, $40 the Department of
Agriculture has power to frame re-
gulatiens for the protection of migra-
tory birds.
From circulars issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture we CLEAN
the following facts which may be
useful to the Arizona hunter, Those
desiring more detailed information
can obtain the full text of the game
bird regulations by applying to
Henry w. Henshaw. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. c.
For the purposes of these regula
tions, the following shall be consid-
cred migratory game birds: Water
fowl, including brant, wild ducks,
geese, and swans; cranes, including
little brown, sandhill, and whooping
cranes; rails including coots, galIi-
mules, and sora and other rails;
shore birds. including avocets, cur
lew, dowitchers, godwits, knots,
plover, sandpipers, snipe, stills,
willet, woodchuck, and yellowlegs;
pigeons, including doves and wild
pigeons.
For the purposes of these regula-
tions the following shall be consider
ed migratory insectivorous birds:
Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cue
koos, hycatchers, grosbeck, hum
ming birds, kinglets, martins, mea
dow larks, night hawks or bull bats,
nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes,
swallows; swifts, tanaaers, titmice,
thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings,
whipowils, woodpeckers, and wrens,
and all other perching birds which
feed entirely or chiefly en- insects.
A daily closed season on all mi
gratory game insectivorous birds
shall extend from sunset to sunrise.
The closed season will continue
the year around en- the above named
migratory insectivorous birds.
A closed season shall continue un-
til September l, 1918, on the follow
ing migratory game birds; Band
tailed pigeons, little brown, sand
mill, and whooping cranas, swans,
curlew, and all shorebirds except
the black breasted and golden plover,
Wilson or jacksnipe, and the greater
and lesser yellowlegs.
Under the regulations, two zones
are established-Zone No. 1, the
breeding zone. comprising states ~
ing wholly or in part north of lati-
tude DO degrees; Zone No. 2, the
wintering zone, comprising states
lying wholly or in part south of lati-
tude DO degrees.
Clored seasons in Arizona are as
follows:
Waterfowl = between December
16 and September /.
Rails--between December and
October 10
Woodcock-between January
and November L.
Shore birds-between December
16 and October Is.
For the purposes of the above
regulations, each period of time
therein prescribed as a closed season
shall be constructed to include the
first day and to exclude the last day
thereof. =.
EFFECT OF THE REGULATIONS
The probable effect of these re-
gulations may be briefly stated as
follows:
ID Uniformity in protection of
migratory game and insectivorous
birds in the several States.
~ Protection of birds while en-.
route to their nesting grounds and
while mating
(3)Uniformiiy In protection of
migratory birds at night.
(4) Establishment OF protected
migration routes along three great
rivers in the central United States.
90 Complete protection for five
years for the smaller shore birds
and other species which have become
greatly reduced in numbers.
(6) Reduction of the open season
on migratory game birds, but in
most cases not more than rs to 80
per cent.
This law went into effect Octo-
ber lst. .r.