Code of Colorado Regulations
400 - Department of Natural Resources
406 - Colorado Parks and Wildlife (406 Series, Wildlife)
2 CCR 406-6 - CHAPTER W-6 - RAPTORS
Part I - REQUIREMENTS FOR POSSESSION OF RAPTORS
Article VI - USE OF RAPTORS
Section 615 - FALCONRY FIELD MEETS

A. A permit is required for any falconry field meet sponsored by a state or national organization in which any non-resident of Colorado participates.

B. An application furnished by the Division shall be completed and returned to the Division accompanied by a fee of forty dollars ($40.00) at least 30 days prior to the proposed meet.

C. For the period three days prior to, during, and five days following any properly-licensed falconry field meet, those participants and raptors listed on a registration form for that field meet provided to the Special Licensing Unit of the Division at least five days prior to the scheduled event may submit that registration in lieu of an importation permit to satisfy the importation requirements of these regulations and § 33-6-114(2), C.R.S., provided further that registered participants in a field meet sponsored by any national falconry organization may submit that registration prior to or on the first day of the scheduled event. A veterinary certificate certifying that each bird is disease free is required.

D. Banding requirements of these regulations are waived for the period three days prior to, during, and five days following any properly-licensed falconry field meet for any non-resident of Colorado whose birds are not required by their home state to be banded, and who are registered participants of a permitted falconry field meet.

E. Each resident participant in such meet shall have a valid falconry license. Nonresident participants shall be required to purchase an annual nonresident possession/hunting raptor license.

F. Migratory game birds used in a falconry field meet shall be marked or banded in accordance with federal law.