Illinois Administrative Code
Title 17 - CONSERVATION
Part 1590 - FALCONRY AND THE CAPTIVE PROPAGATION OF RAPTORS
Section 1590.100 - Transfer, Change in Status, Release, Acquisition and Reporting Requirements
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Permittees shall not purchase or sell any raptor except as specified in Section 1590.85(a) or in subsection (d) of this Section.
b) If a raptor is acquired, transferred, rebanded or microchipped, if a raptor is stolen, if a raptor is lost to the wild and not recovered within 30 days, or if a raptor possessed for falconry dies, the change in status must be reported within 10 days by entering the required information into the electronic database at https://epermits.fws.gov/falcp and to the Department by submitting a form 3-186A. If a raptor is stolen, then it must be reported to the Department and to the local Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Law Enforcement office at 618-713-5320 within 10 days after the theft of the raptor. Copies of electronic database submissions documenting take, transfer, loss, rebanding or microchipping must be kept for 5 years after the transaction.
c) Non-native raptors, hybrids, imprinted raptors and golden eagles may not be permanently released in Illinois.
d) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a falconry permittee from purchasing, selling or bartering a captive-bred raptor marked with a seamless band provided that the transaction is in accordance with federal regulations ( 50 CFR 21.29), this Part, and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the captive-bred raptor is purchased, sold or bartered, the captive-bred raptor is of a species that may be legally held by the permittee (see Section 1590.80 ), and the captive-bred raptor was legally acquired by the person from whom it is being purchased as demonstrated by the FWS forms). Wild raptors may be transferred, but shall not be purchased, sold, traded or bartered.
e) A raptor of any age and species that a falconry permittee is allowed to possess (except a golden eagle) may be acquired directly from a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. The transfer is at the discretion of the rehabilitator.
f) Captive-bred falconry raptors may be transferred to another permit type if the holder of the other permit is authorized to possess the raptors. The transfer must be reported within 10 days by entering the required information into the electronic database at https://epermits.fws.gov/falcp and by submitting a form 3-186A to the Department.
g) A wild-caught falconry raptor may be transferred to another permit type if the holder of the other permit is authorized to possess the raptor under the following circumstances:
h) A surviving spouse, executor, administrator or other legal representative of a deceased falconry permittee may transfer any falconry raptor held by the deceased permittee to another authorized permittee within 90 days after the death of the falconry permittee. After 90 days, the disposition of the raptors is at the discretion of the Department.