Indiana § 14-8-2-162 - "Migratory birds"
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§ 14-8-2-162. "Migratory birds"
Sec. 162. "Migratory birds", for purposes of IC 14-22, refers to the following birds:
(1) Migratory game birds, including the following:
(A) Anatidae, or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, wild geese, and swans.
(B) Gruidae, or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes.
(C) Rallidae, or rails, including coot, gallinules, sora, and other rails.
(D) Limicolae, or shorebirds, including avocets, curlews, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, tilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, tattlers, and yellow legs.
(E) Columbidae, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.
(2) Migratory insectivorous birds, including the following:
(A) Cuckoos.
(B) Flickers and other woodpeckers.
(C) Nighthawks or bull-bats, and whippoorwills.
(D) Swifts.
(E) Hummingbirds and flycatchers.
(F) Bobolinks, meadowlarks, and orioles.
(G) Grosbeaks.
(H) Tanagers.
(I) Martins and other swallows.
(J) Waxwings.
(K) Shrikes and vireos.
(L) Warblers.
(M) Pipits.
(N) Catbirds and brown thrashers.
(O) Wrens.
(P) Brown creepers.
(Q) Nuthatches.
(R) Chickadees and titmice.
(S) Kinglets and gnat catchers.
(T) Robins and other thrushes.
(U) All other perching birds that feed entirely or chiefly on insects.
(3) Other migratory nongame birds, including the following:
(A) Auks.
(B) Auklets.
(C) Bitterns.
(D) Fulmars.
(E) Gannets.
(F) Grebes.
(G) Guillemots.
(H) Gulls.
(I) Herons.
(J) Jaegers.
(K) Loons.
(L) Murres.
(M) Petrels.
(N) Puffins.
(O) Shearwaters.
(P) Terns.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-2-2-1 part.]
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.1.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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