Indiana Administrative Code › Title 312 - NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION › Article 9 - FISH AND WILDLIFE › Rule 10 - Special Licenses; Permits and Standards › Section 10-13.1 - Falconry licenses

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 14-11-2-1; IC 14-22-2-6; IC 14-22-23
Affected: IC 4-21.5; IC 14-22-31; IC 35-47-2
Sec. 13.1.
(a) A
				license is required under this section for an individual to practice
				falconry.
(b) The following
				definitions apply throughout this section:
(1)
				"Abatement" means the use of a raptor to mitigate depredation and nuisance
				problems from other birds for the protection of human health and safety and
				domestic and wild animals.
(2)
				"Aerie" means the nest of a raptor on a cliff, mountaintop, or man-made
				building.
(3) "Bate" means to
				attempt to fly off of something while tethered.
(4) "Captive-bred" means raptors, including
				their eggs, hatched in captivity from parents that mated in captivity or
				otherwise transferred gametes in captivity.
(5) "Chamber-raised" means parent-reared for
				a minimum of ten (10) weeks.
(6)
				"Eyass" means a young raptor that is:
(A)
				still in the nest or aerie; and
(B)
				not capable of flying. The term is also known as a nestling.
(7) "Giant hood" means any
				enclosure that affords protection and a suitable perching surface, be it a
				modified dog style carrier, cardboard box, custom plastic or wood constructed
				enclosure, including the enclosed areas of vehicles with perching set-ups such
				as those used by falcons.
(8)
				"Hack" means to temporarily release a raptor held for falconry to the wild so
				that it must survive on its own.
(9) "Hybrid" means an offspring of birds
				listed as two (2) or more distinct species in
				50 CFR
				10.13, or offspring of birds recognized by
				ornithological authorities as two (2) or more distinct species listed in
				50 CFR
				10.13.
(10) "Imping" means grafting a damaged
				feather with a molted feather onto a trained raptor to repair damage.
(11) "Imprinted" means a bird that is
				hand-raised, from two (2) weeks of age until it has fledged, and has identified
				itself with humans rather than its own species. An imprinted bird is considered
				to be so for its entire lifetime.
(12) "Leg band" means a permanent,
				nonreusable, numbered United States Fish and Wildlife Service band supplied by
				the department to be affixed to a raptor's leg.
(13) "Mew" means an indoor enclosure for
				housing a raptor.
(14) "Passage
				bird" means a wild raptor that is still in its immature plumage, with no
				presence of new adult tail or primary wing feathers.
(15) "Retrices" means the long, stiff,
				asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feathers on the tail of a
				bird.
(16) "Seamless metal band"
				means a numbered and seamless United States Fish and Wildlife Service band that
				is placed on the raptor's leg (metatarsus) to identify it as
				captive-bred.
(17) "Weathering
				area" means an outdoor enclosure for housing a raptor.
(18) "Wild raptor" means a raptor that was
				originally taken from the wild, regardless of how long it is held in captivity
				or transferred to another license holder or permit/license type.