Wild Birds Protection Act

1 L.R.O. 1985 Wjld Birds Protection CAP.398 CHAPTER398 WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Interpretation. 3. Killing or wounding a wild bird. 4. Having in possession skin and feathers of a wild bird. 5. Export of skin and feathers of wild birds prohibited. 6. Licence for killing wild birds for purposes of natural history. SCHEDULE Protected wild birds THE LAWS OF BARBADOS Print&d by the Government Prlntlng Department, Bay Street. St. Mlchacl. by the ruthorlty of the Government of Barbados 3 L.R.O. 1985 W&f Birch Protection CAP. 398 ss.l-5 CHAPTER 398 WILD BIRDS PROTECTION An Act relating to theprotection oj’certain wild birds. :;$I;. 1958-5i. 1978-27. L.N. 168/ 1967. [ 20th June, 1901 Fe;mence 1. This Act may be cited as the Wild Birds Protection Act. Short title. 2. For the purposes of this Part, the expression “wild bird” Inter means any bird specified in the Schedule. pretation. Schedule. 3. Any person who knowingly kills or wounds or attempts to ~ing.~~ kill or wound a wild bird shall be liable to a penalty of $100 for each wild bird killed or wounded or attempted to be killed or wounded, ziiT$g a 197s-zj. to be recovered in a summary manner before a magistrate on the information of any person and paid one-halfto the informant. 4. Any person who has in his possession the dead body or any ~aving.it~ part ofthe dead body of any wild bird, recently killed, shall be liable ~~~,seaS~ to a penalty of $100 for each dead body or part of a dead body, to be pzF;,pf, recovered in a summary manner before a magistrate on the 1g78-27 * information of any person and paid one-half to the informant. 5. (1) The skin and feathers of any wild bird are hereby zka;;f prohibited to be exported from Barbados, feathers of (2) Where any skin or feathers of any wild bird are exported, the person who exports such skin or feathers shall be liable to a penalty ytiEzd. y97s-27 of $250, to be recovered in the manner and by the person specified in, and to be distributed as is provided by, section 4. lHE LAWS OF BARBADOS Rlntcd by the Government Printlnp Department, Bay Street, St. Mlchrel. by the wthorlty of the Government of Barbados Laws of Barbados Suppl. 2B Sip 1 s.6 CAP. 398 WjM Birds Pro tee tion L.R.O. 1985 4 Licynce for 6. !%TfoYd Any person desiring to obtain specimens of any wild birds for the purposes of natural history shall be entitled to kill the same for purposes of natural such purposes on obtaining a licence to do so from the Minister. history. ~g;j168/ . SCHEDULE Protected wild birds Pied-billed Grebe Audubon’s Shearwater Brown Pelican Magnificent Frigate Bird: Cobber Great Blue Heron; Grey Caulin Little Green Heron; Gaulin Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Great Egret Snowy Egret tricoloured Heron; Louisiana Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron Osprey; Fish Hawk Sora Craka; Duck-me-chick Common Gallinule; Red-seal Coot Caribbean Coot; White-seal Coot Upland Sandpiper; Cotton Tree Plover Buff-Breasted Sandpiper Hudsonian Godwit; Godwit Ruff philomachus pugnax Red-necked pigeon; Ramier Zenaida Dove: Wood Dove Ground Dove Guyana Parrotlet; Parakeet Common Nighthawk Green-throated Carib; Large Hummingbird Antillean Crested Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher; Kingfisher Grey Kingbird; Rain Bird; Dr. Morris Podilytnbus podiceps Pujjlitius Ihcrtttitticri Pelecaruis Occidctitalis Frcgata tttagttificctts Ardca hero&as Bu toridcs Vircscctts Florida caentlea Bubulcus ibis Casmcrodius alba Egretta fhula Hydranassa tricobur Nycticorax tzJscricorax Nyctattassa violacea Pattdiotl Haliactus Porzaria Carolina Gallitiula chloropus Fulica caribaea Bartratuia lottgicauda Tryngites subruficollis Lirnosa haonastica Philomachus pugtmx Colum ba syuattma Aetzaida aurita Cohrnlbitla passerifza Forpus passerinus Chordciles minor Sericotes holosericeus Orthorhyncus cristatus Halcyon cetyle Tyrannus dotninicemis 4A L.R.O. 1985 Wild Birds Protection CAP. 398 I Caribbean Eiaenia Flycatcher; Peewittler; Pee-whistler Caribbean Purple Martin: Large Swallow Barn Swallow; Swallow Scaly-breasted Thrasher; Thrush Black-whiskered Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Parula Warbler Yellow Warbler; Yellow bird Blackpoll Warbler Northern Waterthrush American Redstart; Gold Finch: Christmas Bird Scarlet Tanager Glossy Cowbird; Brazilian Rice Bird Carib Grackle; Blackbird Yellow Grass Finch; Grass Canary Black-faced Grassquit; Cane Sparrow Elaenia martinica Progne subis Hirundo rustica Margarops fuscus Viero altiloquus Protnotaria citrea Parula americana Dendroica petechia Dendroica striata Seiurus noveboracensis Setophaga ruticilla Piranga 0 livacea Molothrus bonariensis Quiscalus lugubris Siscalis lu teola Tiaris bicolor THE LAWS OF BARBADOS RlnIed by the Governmen Prlntlng Deparrmenr. Bay Sweet, St. Michael. by the authority of the Governmen! of Barbados