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  • New Mexico: Non-toxic ammunition required for common moorhen; sora, a freshwater marsh bird; Virginia rail and snipe with shotguns, as well as dove, band-tailed pigeon, upland game or migratory game birds on all State Game Commission owned or managed areas.

    Iowa in middle of lead-shot skirmish 2011

  • By the way, last I knew band-tailed pigeons are classified as migratory game and therefore at least partially under federal regulation.

    What's everyone hunting in the off-season? 2009

  • By the way, last I knew band-tailed pigeons are classified as migratory game and therefore at least partially under federal regulation.

    What's everyone hunting in the off-season? 2009

  • New Mexico: Non-toxic ammunition required for common moorhen; sora, a freshwater marsh bird; Virginia rail and snipe with shotguns, as well as dove, band-tailed pigeon, upland game or migratory game birds on all State Game Commission owned or managed areas.

    Iowa in middle of lead-shot skirmish 2011

  • The periodically abundant acorn crop attracts flocks of band-tailed pigeons, acorn woodpeckers, and mountain quail.

    Pacific Lowland Mixed Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

  • Some species found only in higher montane areas are the Gould's turkey (Meleagris gallopavo mexicana), band-tailed pigeon (Columba fasiata), mexican chickadee (Parus sclateri) and hepatic tanager (Piranga flava).

    Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests 2007

  • Squirrels, band-tailed pigeons and doves should be perpetually protected.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • California will try to secure a similar act; and we know full well that her ducks, geese, quail, grouse and band-tailed pigeon need it very much.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • Certainly; with all the pleasure in life: The band-tailed pigeon, the white-tailed kite, the sharp-tailed grouse, the sage grouse, the mountain sheep, prong-horned antelope, California mule deer, and ducks and geese too numerous to mention.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • The band-tailed pigeons and all non-game birds should immediately be given protection; and a salaried warden system should be established under a Commissioner whose term is not less than four years.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

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