Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 571 - Natural Resource Commission › Title VIII - Seasons, Limits, Methods of Take › Chapter 92 - Migratory Game Birds › Rule 571-92.3 - Hunting Methods

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Migratory game birds may be taken by any method except those
				  prohibited in this rule. No person shall take migratory game birds (brant, wild
				  ducks, geese, rails, coots, woodcock, and snipe):
(1) With a trap, snare, net, crossbow, rifle,
				pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10-gauge, punt gun, battery gun,
				machine gun, fish hook, poison, drug, explosive or stupefying
				substance;
(2) With a shotgun of
				any description capable of holding more than three shells, unless it is plugged
				with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so
				its total capacity does not exceed three shells;
(3) On all lands and waters of the state of
				Iowa while having in one's possession any shot other than nontoxic shot
				approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This subrule shall not apply to
				the taking of woodcock.
(4) From or
				by means or use of a sinkbox or any other type of low-floating device, having a
				depression affording the hunter a means of concealment beneath the surface of
				the water;
(5) From or by means,
				aid, or use of any motor vehicle, motor-drive land conveyance, or aircraft of
				any kind, except that paraplegics and single or double amputees of the legs may
				take from any stationary motor-driven land conveyance. "Paraplegic" means an
				individual afflicted with paralysis of the lower half of the body with the
				involvement of both legs, usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal
				cord;
(6) From or by means of any
				motorboat or other craft having a motor attached, or any sailboat, unless the
				motor has been completely shut off or the sail furled, and its progress
				therefrom has ceased: Provided, that a craft under power may be used to
				retrieve dead or crippled birds. However, crippled birds may not be shot from
				such craft under power;
(7) By the
				use or aid of live birds as decoys; although not limited to, it shall be a
				violation of this subrule for any person to take migratory waterfowl on an area
				where tame or captive live ducks or geese are present unless such birds are and
				have been for a period of ten consecutive days prior to such taking, confined
				within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls
				and totally conceals such birds from the sight of wild migratory
				waterfowl;
(8) By the use or aid of
				recorded or electrically amplified bird calls or sounds, or recorded or
				electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or sounds;
(9) By means or aid of any motor-driven land,
				water, or air conveyance or any sailboat used for the purpose of or resulting
				in the concentrating, driving, rallying, or stirring up of any migratory bird;
				or
(10) By the aid of baiting, or
				on or over any baited area. As used in this subrule, "baiting" shall mean the
				placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of shelled, shucked
				or unshucked corn, wheat or other grain, salt, or other feed so as to
				constitute for such birds a lure, attraction or enticement to, on, or over any
				areas where hunters are attempting to take them; and "baited area" means any
				area where shelled, shucked or unshucked corn, wheat or other grain, salt, or
				other feed capable of luring, attracting, or enticing such birds is directly or
				indirectly placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered and such area
				shall remain a baited area for ten days following complete removal of all such
				corn, wheat or other grain, salt, or other feed. However, nothing in this
				subrule shall prohibit:
a. The taking of all
				migratory game birds, including waterfowl, on or over standing crops, flooded
				standing crops (including aquatics), flooded harvested croplands, grain crops
				properly shocked on the field where grown, or grains found scattered solely as
				the result of normal agricultural planting or harvesting; and
b. The taking of all migratory game birds,
				except waterfowl, on or over any lands where shelled, shucked or unshucked
				corn, wheat or other grain, salt, or other feed has been distributed or
				scattered solely as the result of valid agricultural operations or
				procedures.