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Texas – BIRDNET
Texas Wildlife and Parks Scientific Permit for Research
Wildlife Diversity Permits Section
Phone: (512) 389-4647
Is a state permit needed for banding:?
Yes. The regulation pertains to any activity conducted for the purpose of enhancing, protecting, conserving or managing protected wildlife, or furthering scientific understanding of a resource or the environment.
Subpermittee list
Statute: Texas Statutes
e) The department may issue a permit to a qualified person to collect, hold, possess, display, transport, release, or propagate protected wildlife for scientific research, educational display, zoological collection, or rehabilitation. A permit may not be issued to propagate protected wildlife for rehabilitation or educational display.
SUBCHAPTER J SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL, AND ZOOLOGICAL PERMITS
RULE §69.301 Definitions
(2) Protected wildlife–As defined by Parks and Wildlife Code, §43.021, and includes any parts of protected wildlife held under a permit issued under this subchapter.
(3) Raptor–A bird of the order Falconiformes, Accipitriformes, Cathartiformes, or Strigiformes.
(4) Scientific purposes–Activities conducted for the purposes of enhancing, protecting, conserving or managing protected wildlife, or furthering scientific understanding of a resource or the environment.
(5) Subpermittee–A person named on a permit who is authorized to conduct the activities of a permit as provided in §69.302 of this title (relating to General Rules). (6) Supervision–A permittee’s direction and control of the activities of persons working under a permit, including legal responsibility for those activities.
§69.302 General Rules
(a) No permit is required for an activity governed by this subchapter involving nongame species for which there are no provisions by rule or statute that would otherwise restrict take or possession.
(b) Permits issued under this subchapter shall be issued to named individuals only, and shall not be held in the name of an agency, firm, or institution.
(c) The propagation of protected wildlife for educational display shall not be authorized and no permit for such activity may be issued.
(d) No person may employ or use any devices, means, methods, activities, locations, or personnel other than those authorized by a permit unless that person has received prior written authorization from the department in the form of a permit amendment. A permittee or subpermittee must possess on their person any such authorizations in addition to a copy of the original permit while conducting any activity governed by this subchapter.
(e) Except as otherwise provided for in this section, activities authorized by a permit issued under this subchapter shall be conducted only by the permittee(s) or subpermittee(s) named on the permit or permit amendment. Unpermitted assistants may perform activities authorized by a permit only when under the direct on-site supervision of the permittee. A permittee engaging unpermitted assistants shall maintain on file and possess on their person in the field a signed and dated list of all unpermitted persons assisting in permitted activities.
(f) Any subpermittee who desires to make unsupervised collections shall carry the written permission of the permittee on their person while conducting any activities authorized by a permit.
(g) A permit issued under this subchapter shall not authorize the sale of protected wildlife.
(h) Permits issued under this subchapter are valid for three years from the date of issuance, provided the permittee abides by the provisions of this subchapter.
RULE §69.303 Application for Permit and Permit Issuance
(a) No permits for activities governed under this subchapter may be issued to any person unless the person has met the requirements of this section. An applicant for a permit under this subchapter shall submit to the department:
(2) a letter of recommendation from each of two persons in an appropriate biological or professional field attesting to the applicant’s qualifications, abilities, and experience;
(3) a letter of approval, if the research involves live protected wildlife, from a university animal use committee or similar oversight entity. In the event that the applicant is an independent researcher, the applicant shall enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the department concerning the use of live protected wildlife; and
(4) a written justification explaining how the species of protected wildlife will benefit from the activity. The department may at its discretion choose to deny permit issuance when it disagrees with the justification.
(b) The department reserves the right to refuse issuance of an initial permit or of any subsequent permits to persons who have been finally convicted of any violation of state or federal law applicable to fish and wildlife.
RULE §69.304 Qualifications
(b) Scientific research permits shall not be issued to persons the department determines are inadequately trained or too inexperienced to accomplish the objectives of the proposed research.
(d) Any person transporting into this state any bird or animal for a purpose governed under this subchapter must meet the qualifications established in subsection (c) of this section and must possess a department-issued letter of authorization listing the specific birds and animals that the person is authorized to possess and the time period for which such possession is authorized. No letter of authorization issued under this subsection shall authorize the possession of protected wildlife for longer than 90 days in this state. A separate letter of authorization is required for each instance that any protected wildlife is transported into this state.
RULE §69.306 Restrictions
(a) Specimens collected or held under a permit issued pursuant to this subchapter may not be retained for personal use by the permittee, but may be donated or transferred only as described in §69.307 of this title (relating to Final Disposition of Specimen).
(b) Collections shall not be made on private property or property owned or administered by a governmental entity without prior written consent of the owner, lessee, operator, or administrator, which written permission shall be in physical possession during all collection activities.
RULE §69.307
Final Disposition of Specimens
(a) All wildlife held under this subchapter shall be disposed of by one or more of the following methods:
(1) examination, experimentation, necropsy, or disposing of as waste in accordance with state, county, or city regulations relating to the disposal of waste materials;
(2) retaining specimens for scientific, zoological or educational purposes;
(3) release to the wild as specifically authorized in the conditions of a permit;
(4) edible portions of game species shall only be disposed of by donation to charitable organizations, public hospitals, orphanages, or indigent persons, and such donations shall be accompanied by donation-receipt forms supplied by the department;
(5) transfer or donation to other persons authorized to receive such specimens under a permit issued pursuant to this subchapter; or
(6) special disposition as prescribed in writing by the department.
(b) Deceased specimens and parts of specimens may be donated by a permittee to accredited educational institutions or museums, provided the permittee furnishes the institution with a copy of the permit under which each specimen was taken or possessed.
RULE §69.308 Reports
Within 14 days of each anniversary of the date of issuance of a valid permit under this subchapter, and within 14 days of the expiration of a permit issued under this subchapter, a permittee shall file with the department an annual report containing the following information:
(1) the numbers and species of protected wildlife collected, held, possessed, propagated, released, displayed, donated, loaned, transferred, or transported during the permit period;
(2) the locations where permitted activities were conducted; and
RULE §69.309 Inspections
(a) A permit holder shall maintain an accurate daily record of all activities, as described in §69.308 of this title (relating to Reports).
(b) A permit holder’s daily records shall be available for inspection by authorized employees of the department at reasonable times.
Texas state endangered species law
Sec. 68.006. PERMIT FOR TAKING ENDANGERED SPECIES. The provisions of Subchapter C, Chapter 43, of this code are applicable to all fish or wildlife classified as endangered, and it is a violation of this chapter to possess, take, or transport endangered fish or wildlife for zoological gardens or scientific purposes or to take or transport endangered fish or wildlife from their natural habitat for propagation for commercial purposes without the permit required by Section 43.022 of this code.
SUBCHAPTER G THREATENED AND ENDANGERED NONGAME SPECIES
(a) The provisions of this subchapter apply to any species of wildlife listed in this state as threatened or endangered, living or dead, including parts.(b) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter or Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapters 67 or 68, no person may: (1) take, possess, propagate, transport, export, sell or offer for sale, or ship any species of fish or wildlife listed by the department as endangered; or (2) take, possess, propagate, transport, import, export, sell, or offer for sale any species of fish or wildlife listed in this subchapter as threatened.
RULE §65.176 Endangered Species
RULE §65.175 Threatened Species
Texas Botteri’s Sparrow (Peucaea botterii texana)
Arizona Botteri’s Sparrow (Peucaea botterii arizonae)