Is there any legal way of keeping a crow? Do federal laws allow liscensed rehabbers to keep ones that can't be released? I'm not federally liscensed for birds but do state rehab for other wildlife. I do wildlife talks at schools but because of the laws of keeping native birds, don't have any to take along. I've found that going to the schools and educating the kids about them keeps them from just going out and throwing rocks at them or injuring or killing them just because and birds seem to get almost the same treatment as reptiles around here. I think it would be great to be able to show them how smart birds are.
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legalities of keeping a crow
erinszoo
Jul 03, 2003 07:28 PM
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Ravenspirit
Jul 03, 2003 08:24 PM
You cant keep any native songbird. No crows, jays, magpies, anything. Its against the migratory bird act, and is a fedral offence. The extensive permiting to be a falconer, and fly birds of prey, still dont allow native corvids, just native birds of prey. You can keep exotic corvids in some areas, but in others permits and liscances are required. I know in california, it is illegal to keep any kind of corvid, native or exotic.
A new law has made it illegal for even rehabbers who are liscanced to keep injured unreleasable birds too. Unreleasable birds must be destroyed -
-So, In short, No, you cant have a native crow.
Raven -
