Ch. 145 LAWS OF MARYLAND

[(w)] (V) "Wild birds" means every bird wild by nature or any part, egg,
offspring, or dead body of any of them.

[(x)] (W) "Wild mammal" means every mammal wild by nature or any part, egg,
offspring, or dead body of any of them.

[(y)] (X) "Wild quadruped" means any species of wildlife having 4 feet or any
part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.

[(z)] (Y) "Wild waterfowl" means brant, coots, ducks, geese, mergansers, and
swans or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them, INCLUDING BIRDS
RAISED IN CAPTIVITY AND RELEASED TO THE WILD OR OTHERWISE
USED FOR HUNTING PURPOSES.

[(aa)] (Z) "Wildlife" means every living creature, not human, wild by nature,
endowed with sensation and power of voluntary motion and including mammals, birds,
amphibians, and reptiles which spend a majority of their life cycle on land or any part,
egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.

10-308.1.

(a) In addition to the consolidated hunting license or basic hunting license, a
person hunting [migratory] wild waterfowl in the State first shall obtain a Maryland
migratory wild waterfowl stamp.

10-402.

(a) A person may not take or destroy, or attempt to take or destroy the nest or
eggs of any wild bird or possess the nest or eggs.

(b) A person may not hunt or take any nest or egg of any [migratory] bird
REGULATED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PURSUANT TO THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT, 40 STAT. 755, except in
the manner and by the means prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by the
Secretary of Interior of the United States and approved by the President of the United
States pursuant to the provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, 40 Stat. 755.

(c) A person may take or possess any nest or egg of any wild or [migratory] bird
REGULATED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PURSUANT TO THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT, 40 STAT. 755, for
scientific purposes if he first obtains a permit from the Secretary of Interior of the
United States and a scientific certificate from the Department.

10-403.

(a) A person may not hunt, purchase, sell, barter, exchange, or attempt to hunt,
purchase, sell, barter, or exchange any [migratory] game bird except as provided by
federal or State laws and rules and regulations.

(b) A person may not hunt or possess any [migratory] game bird in excess of the
limits prescribed by federal or State laws and rules and regulations.

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