Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 040 - Game and Fish Commission › Sub-Agency 0001 - Game and Fish Commission Regulations › Chapter 14 - MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER › Section 14-2 - Hunting Regulations

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Federal
				Regulations. 50 CFR
				20.21(i) revised as of
				August 8, 2019, which do not include any later amendments or editions of the
				incorporated matter, governing the baiting of migratory game birds, are adopted
				as regulations of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. Violations of these
				federal statutes and regulations shall be violations of the Commission
				regulations. A copy of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations can be
				viewed at the Cheyenne Headquarters, Department Regional Offices or on the U.S.
				Fish and Wildlife Service website (
www.fws.gov
).
(b) Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and
				Conservation Stamp (federal duck stamp). A federal duck stamp is required for
				persons sixteen (16) years of age and older to hunt ducks, geese and
				mergansers. A federal duck stamp is not required to hunt coots, sandhill
				cranes, crows, mourning doves, rail or snipe. Federal duck stamps shall be
				signed in ink across the face of the stamp and shall be in possession of the
				hunter while in the field. Hunters possessing an electronic federal duck stamp
				are exempted from this signature provision during the time their electronic
				federal duck stamp is valid.
(c)
				HIP Permit. Each licensed hunter who hunts migratory game birds shall complete
				a current Wyoming validation for the National Migratory Bird Harvest
				Information Program (HIP) and shall obtain a Wyoming HIP permit. This
				requirement also applies to holders of pioneer and lifetime hunting licenses.
				Each licensed hunter engaged in the act of hunting doves, ducks, geese,
				mergansers, coots, rails, cranes or snipe shall be in possession of a Wyoming
				HIP permit and shall immediately produce said permit upon request from any
				authorized Department representative. HIP permits shall be signed in ink across
				the face of the permit and shall be in possession of the hunter while in the
				field. HIP permits expire on June 30 each year. HIP permits are not
				transferrable to other states. A separate HIP permit is required from each
				state in which you hunt. Wyoming HIP permits shall be available only on the
				Department website. Youths under 14 are not required to obtain a HIP permit if
				they do not hold a valid game bird license.
(d) No person shall take migratory game
				birds:
(i) With a trap, snare, net, rifle,
				pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt gun, machine gun,
				fishhook, poison, drug, explosive or stupefying substance;
(ii) With any shotgun that can hold more than
				three (3) shells in the magazine and chamber combined, except during the light
				goose conservation order (refer to Section
				7 of this regulation);
(iii) From a sink box or any low floating
				device, which has a depression to hide a person underneath the water's
				surface;
(iv) From or by means of
				any motorboat or sailboat unless the motor has been completely shut off or sail
				furled, and the boat's progress therefrom has ceased;
(v) By the use or aid of live decoys. All
				live, tame or captive ducks and geese shall be removed for a period of ten (10)
				consecutive days prior to hunting, and shall be confined within an enclosure
				which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally conceals
				such birds from the sight of migratory game birds;
(vi) By the use of records or tapes of
				migratory bird calls or sounds, or electronically amplified imitations of bird
				calls, except during the light goose conservation order;
(vii) By driving, rallying or chasing
				migratory game birds with any motor driven land, water or air conveyance or any
				sailboat.