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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 259241" data-attributes="member: 337">seems like grackles crapping on homes and living surfaces has a guy good to go with a pellet gun (if I cared enough to worry about it)(d)Ammunition. In most cases, if <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">you</a> use a firearm to kill migratory birds under the provisions of this section, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">you</a> must use nontoxic shot or nontoxic bullets to do so. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/20.21#j" target="_blank">§ 20.21(j)</a> of this chapter for a listing of approved nontoxic shot types. However, this prohibition does not apply if<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">you</a> use an air rifle or an air pistol for control of depredating birds.Conditions under which control is allowed by private citizens.<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">You</a> do not need a Federal permit to control the species listed in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43#a" target="_blank">paragraph (a)</a> of this section in the following circumstances:(1) Where they are causing serious injuries to agricultural or horticultural crops or to livestock feed;(2) When they cause a health hazard or structural property damage;(3) To protect a species recognized by the Federal Government as an endangered, threatened, or candidate species in any county in which it occurs, as shown in the Service's Environmental Conservation Online System (<a href="http://ecos.fws.gov" target="_blank">http://ecos.fws.gov</a>);(4) To protect a species recognized by the Federal Government as an endangered or threatened species in designated critical habitat for the species; or(5) To protect a species recognized by a State or Tribe as endangered, threatened, candidate, or of special concern if the control takes place within that State or on the lands of that tribe, respectively.(6) Each calendar year, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">you</a> must attempt to control depredation by species listed under this depredation order using nonlethal methods before<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/50/21.43" target="_blank">you</a> may use lethal control. Nonlethal control methods can include such measures as netting and flagging, the use of trained raptors, propane cannons, and recordings.- - - Updated - - -why grackles are on the list is beyond me</blockquote>

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