Any person hunting migratory birds (woodcock, dove, rails, sora, Wilson’s snipe, coots, gallinule, merganser, ducks, geese, or sandhill crane) required to be licensed should have completed a free Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program survey card providing information for the preceding season prior to hunting any species of migratory bird. Each person required to be licensed hunting migratory birds in Alabama should have the survey completion stamp on their person while hunting migratory birds.

It shall be a violation of this regulation for any person required to be licensed, having been warned by a law enforcement officer, to continue to hunt migratory birds without the survey completion stamp on their person.

Author: N. Gunter Guy, Jr.

Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§9-2-7, 9-2-8, 9-2-12.

History: New Rule: Filed November 25, 1996; effective December 30, 1996. Amended: Filed June 20, 2016; effective August 4, 2016. Amended: Published October 31, 2019; effective December 15, 2019.