Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 25 - FALCONRY AND RAPTOR PROPAGATION REGULATION › Section 25-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
For the purpose of this regulation, definitions shall be as
				  set forth in Title 23, Wyoming Statutes and the Commission also adopts the
				  following definitions:
(a) "Abatement
				Activities" means the use of trained raptors to flush, haze or take birds or
				other wildlife where allowed to mitigate depredation problems, including
				threats to human health and safety.
(b) "Adult Golden Eagle" means a golden eagle
				without any immature or sub-adult feathers in either the wings or the
				tail.
(c) "Aerie" means the nest of
				any raptor.
(d) "Captive-bred"
				means raptors, including eggs, hatched in captivity from parents that mated or
				otherwise transferred gametes in captivity.
(e) "CFR" means the Code of Federal
				Regulations.
(f) "Department" means
				the Wyoming Game and Fish Department whose mailing address is: 5400 Bishop
				Boulevard, Cheyenne, WY 82006.
(g)
				"Eyas Raptor" means a young raptor not yet capable of flight.
(h) "Falconry" means taking wild quarry by
				means of a trained raptor. Falconry includes the taking of raptors from the
				wild to use in falconry and caring for, training, and possessing raptors held
				for falconry.
(i) "Falconry Permit"
				means a permit to possess, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer to sell,
				purchase or barter raptors for falconry purposes.
(j) "General Raptor Capture License" means a
				license to capture one (1) raptor, except peregrine falcons (
Falco
				peregrinus
), from the wild in accordance with this
				regulation.
(k) "Hacking" means the
				temporary release to the wild of a raptor held for falconry for conditioning or
				for the preparation of permanent release of a raptor to the wild.
(l) "Hybrid" means offspring produced by
				crossing species.
(m) "Imping"
				means to graft new feathers to existing feather shafts on a raptor's wing(s) or
				tail to repair damage or to increase flying capacity.
(n) "Imprint" means a raptor that is
				hand-raised from two weeks of age until it is fully feathered and has
				identified itself with humans rather than its own species. An imprinted raptor
				is considered to be so for its entire lifetime.
(o) "License to Hunt with Falcon" means a
				license to take game birds and small game animals with raptors.
(p) "Limited Quota Raptor Capture License"
				means a license to capture one (1) peregrine falcon (
Falco
				peregrinus
) from the wild.
(q) "Livestock Depredation Area" means a
				specific geographic location in which depredation by golden eagles has been
				recognized. The boundaries and duration of a livestock depredation area are
				declared by the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Wildlife
				Services or by the governor.
(r)
				"Permittee" means a person who has been issued a valid Wyoming falconry permit
				or a falconry permit from another state, tribe, or territory that complies with
				federal falconry standards.
(s)
				"Raptor" means any bird of the Order Accipitriformes, Falconiformes or
				Strigiformes listed in
				50 CFR
				10.13, revised as of October 1, 2018, and
				which does not include any later amendments or editions of the incorporated
				matter; to be used in falconry. A copy of 50 CFR Part 10.13 can be viewed at
				any Department Regional Office or the Headquarters Office.
(t) "Service" means the U.S. Fish and
				Wildlife Service.
(u) "Wild Raptor"
				means a non-captive bred raptor taken from its natural environment.