Originally Posted by
FredFogg
Ok, Michael, I have tried not to respond to your post because, well, you need to learn more before posting some of this stuff and I have tried to get that point across but it doesn't seem to have worked. But some apprentice or wanna be is going to see this and I don't want them to have the wrong information.
You do NOT have to own a bird to have a falconry permit! And yes, the regulations do say you should hunt with the bird and of course, that requires training but I can assure you there are more pet keepers out there than there are hunters. But the main point is you do not have to OWN a bird.
Now the word OWN is a tricky word in falconry and we have fought with the feds over this for a long time. If we trap a bird from the wild, their take is we don't OWN that bird, we have just borrowed it from the wild but yet, they consider the bird taken from the wild and no longer part of the wild bird count, even if we turned it loose the next season. But ownership is a whole new thread and if you do a search on here you can find out all about it.