Activities we issue bird licences for

Health, safety, serious damage or disease

Killing birds, or destroying nests or eggs, to prevent agricultural damage Killing birds, or destroying nests or eggs, for health and safety or to prevent spread disease Killing birds to ensure air safety Killing fish-eating birds to prevent damage to still water fisheries Removing wild birds from food premises

Science, research, education or conservation

Surveying, ringing, marking or photographing birds Killing or taking birds, or taking or destroying their nests or eggs, for conservation Killing fish-eating birds on rivers to conserve Atlantic salmon or sea trout Taking mallard duck eggs to rear and release for conservation

Falconry

Killing wild birds through recreational falconry

Rehabilitation, rear, release

Incubating eggs and rearing chicks of captive bred birds of prey Rehabilitating, rearing and releasing wild birds

Selling or showing live or dead birds

Showing live or dead wild birds in an exhibition or competitions Selling live or dead wild birds

Removing eggs from nest boxes

Taking wild bird eggs from abandoned nest boxes

Forensic investigations

Retaining biological wild bird samples in labs