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Forums >> Texas Hunting >> Turkey, Quail and Dove Hunting >> TPWD Migratory Bird Definitions

TPWD Migratory Bird Definitions

udamdan
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The Definitions Are ;

  • Aggregate Limit: A daily bag or possession limit composed of more than one species.
  • Bait: Salt, grain, or other feed, directly or indirectly placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered, that could serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them.
  • Baited Area: Any area on which bait has been placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered so as to serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over areas where hunters are attempting to take them. Any such area will remain a baited area for ten days following the complete removal of all bait.
  • Daily Bag Limit: The maximum number of birds as specified for each species which may be taken during the legal shooting hours of any one day.
  • Legal Shotgun: Shotguns not larger than 10 gauge, fired from the shoulder, and incapable of holding more than 3 shells (shotguns capable of holding more than 3 shells must be plugged with a one-piece filler which is incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so the gun's total capacity does not exceed 3 shells).
  • Manipulation: Alteration of natural vegetation or crops, including but not limited to mowing, shredding, discing, rolling, chopping, trampling, flattening, burning, and herbicide treatments.
  • Migratory Game Birds: Includes all wild species of ducks, geese, coot, rail, gallinules, snipe, woodcock, doves (mourning, white-winged, white-tipped or white-fronted) and sandhill cranes. Does not include exotic collared-dove.
  • Natural Vegetation: Any non-agricultural, native, or naturalized plant species.
  • Normal Agricultural Planting, Harvesting, and Post-Harvest Manipulation: A planting or harvesting undertaken for the purpose of producing and gathering a crop, or manipulation after such harvest and removal of a crop, that is conducted in accordance with official recommendations of State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  • Possession Limit: The maximum number of migratory game birds that can be possessed at any time (two times the daily bag limit after the first day of the season). Sora and Virginia rails are an exception.
  • Sinkbox: A low floating device concealing a person below the surface of the water. UNLAWFUL!
  • Waterfowl: Includes ducks, geese, mergansers, and coots.

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RE: TPWD Migratory Bird Definitions

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NOTE: Hunters are responsible for knowing whether an area is baited or not.

Baiting (the following baiting rules have been established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service):

A hunter MAY hunt any migratory game bird:
over standing crops, standing flooded crops, and flooded harvested crops
at any time over natural vegetation that has been manipulated
where seeds or grains have been scattered as a result of normal agricultural planting, harvesting, or post-harvest manipulation
over crops or natural vegetation where grain has been inadvertently scattered as a result of entering or leaving the field, placing decoys, or retrieving downed birds
using natural vegetation or crops to conceal a blind, provided that if crops are used, no grain or other feed is exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered in the process
except water fowl and cranes where grain or other feed has been distributed or scattered as the result of the manipulation of a crop or livestock feeding

A hunter MAY NOT:
hunt migratory birds with the aid of bait, or on or over any baited area
hunt over any baited area until 10 days after all baiting materials have been removed
hunt waterfowl or cranes over manipulated planted millet, unless the millet was planted more than one year prior to hunting
hunt waterfowl or cranes over crops that have been manipulated, unless the manipulation is a normal agricultural planting, harvesting, or post-harvest manipulation

 

RE: TPWD Migratory Bird Definitions

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Good info, I get asked this question all the time. The line between baiting, hunting food plots, and hunting food plots that have been manipulated for what species gets kind of fuzzy for most people.  This should help

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