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2022 MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING SEASONS
AND LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER
WHAT DOCUMENTS DO I NEED TO HUNT MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS IN WYOMING?
Resident requirement
Resident daily or 12 month game bird or game bird/small game hunting license (See page 4)
Hunter Safety Certificate (See page 6)
Wyoming Conservation Stamp (See page 5)
Federal Duck Stamp (See page 6)
Wyoming HIP Permit (See page 8)
Nonresident requirement
Nonresident daily or 12 month game bird/small game hunting license (See
page 4)
No
Nonresident 12 month youth game bird/small game hunting license (See page 4) No
Hunter Safety Certificate (See page 6)
Wyoming Conservation Stamp (See page 5)
Federal Duck Stamp (See page 6)
Wyoming HIP Permit (See page 8)
Under federal regulations 50 CFR 20.21
* " Baiting " - Means the direct or indirect placing, exposing, depositing, distributing,
manipulating or scattering of salt, grain, or other feed that could serve as a lure or
attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over any areas where hunters are
attempting to take them. (Note that this is a very broad definition)
* " Baited area " - Means any area on which salt, grain, or other feed has been
placed, exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered, if that salt, grain, or other feed
that could serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over areas
where hunters are attempting to take them.
*The presence of seed or grain in livestock feeding operations are baited areas and
rules out waterfowl hunting unless the seed or grain is scattered solely as the result
of a normal agricultural planting, normal agricultural harvesting, normal agricultural
post-harvest manipulation, or normal soil stabilization practice.
For further information regarding federal waterfowl baiting rules, refer
to www.fws.gov/le/waterfowl-hunting-and-baiting.html. See additional
baiting information on Page 7.
Section 2. Hunting Regulations.
(a) Federal Regulations. 50 CFR 20.21(i) revised as of August 8, 2019, which do not
include any later amendments or editions of the incorporated matter, governing the
baiting of migratory game birds, are adopted as regulations of the Wyoming Game and
Fish Commission. Violations of these federal statutes and regulations shall be violations
of the Commission regulations. A copy of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations can
be viewed at the Cheyenne Headquarters, Department Regional Offices or on the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service website (www.fws.gov).
(b) Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (federal duck stamp). A
federal duck stamp is required for persons sixteen (16) years of age and older to hunt
ducks, geese and mergansers. A federal duck stamp is not required to hunt coots,
sandhill cranes, crows, mourning doves, rail or snipe. Federal duck stamps shall be
signed in ink across the face of the stamp and shall be in possession of the hunter while
in the field. Hunters possessing an electronic federal duck stamp are exempted from this
signature provision during the time their electronic federal duck stamp is valid.
(c) HIP Permit. Each licensed hunter who hunts migratory game birds shall complete a
current Wyoming validation for the National Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program
(HIP) and shall obtain a Wyoming HIP permit. This requirement also applies to holders of
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pioneer and lifetime hunting licenses. Each licensed hunter engaged in the act of hunting
doves, ducks, geese, mergansers, coots, rails, cranes or snipe shall be in possession of
a Wyoming HIP permit and shall immediately produce said permit upon request from
any authorized Department representative. HIP permits shall be signed in ink across
the face of the permit and shall be in possession of the hunter while in the field. HIP
permits expire on June 30 each year. HIP permits are not transferrable to other states. A
separate HIP permit is required from each state in which you hunt. Wyoming HIP permits
shall be available only on the Department website. Youths under 14 are not required to
obtain a HIP permit if they do not hold a valid game bird license.
(d) No person shall take migratory game birds:
(i) With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt
gun, machine gun, fishhook, poison, drug, explosive or stupefying substance;
(ii) With any shotgun that can hold more than three (3) shells in the magazine and
chamber combined, except during the light goose conservation order (refer to Section
7 of this regulation);
(iii) From a sink box or any low floating device, which has a depression to
hide a person underneath the water's surface;
(iv) From or by means of any motorboat or sailboat unless the motor has been completely
shut off or sail furled, and the boat's progress there from has ceased;
(v) By the use or aid of live decoys. All live, tame or captive ducks and geese shall be
removed for a period of ten (10) consecutive days prior to hunting, and shall be confined
within an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally
conceals such birds from the sight of migratory game birds;
(vi) By the use of records or tapes of migratory bird calls or sounds, or electronically
amplified imitations of bird calls, except during the light goose conservation order;
(vii) By driving, rallying or chasing migratory game birds with any motor driven land,
water or air conveyance or any sailboat.
(e) Nontoxic Shot. No person shall hunt ducks, geese, mergansers or coots while
possessing shot other than nontoxic shot. Nontoxic shot is also required when using a
shotgun to hunt any game bird on the Commission's Table Mountain and Springer/BumpSullivan
wildlife habitat management areas.
(f) Evidence of Species. One fully feathered wing or the feathered head shall remain
naturally attached to the carcass as a means of identification of migratory game birds,
except mourning doves, in the field and while the birds are being transported.
wgfd.wyo.gov
MIGRATORY GAME BIRD

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