Birds

Bald Eagle

Black-billed Magpie

Boreal Owl

Common Raven

Golden Eagle

Great Horned Owl

Mallard

Northern Goshawk

Northern Hawk Owl

Northwestern Crow

Red-tailed Hawk

Short-eared Owl

Snowy Owl

Trumpeter Swan

 

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act implements various treaties and conventions between the US and Canada, Japan, Mexico and the former Soviet Union for the protection of migratory birds.  Unless permitted by regulations, the Act provides that it is unlawful to pursue, hunt, take, capture or kill; attempt to take, capture or kill; possess, offer to or sell, barter, purchase, deliver or cause to be shipped, exported, imported, carried or received any migratory bird, part, nest, egg or product, manufactured or not.

For more information on the Act and the bird species protected under the Act, please contact the US Fish and Wildlife Service.