Groundhog hunting

HUNTING:
Includes lying in wait for, searching for, being on the trail of, pursuing,
chasing or shooting at wildlife, whether or not the wildlife is killed,
injured, captured or harassed. You need a hunting licence to do any of
these things, except where the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act states
otherwise.
 
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Question Re: Hunting Porcupine
I can not find any reference to porcupine hunting in the Ontario regulations. May I hunt them in Ontario?

Answer:
Yes, in general you may hunt any animal year round except:

  • “game animals”, or
  • “specially protected wildlife” or
  • any other bird that belongs to a species that is wild by nature and is not a game bird (except crows, starlings, brown-headed cowbirds, red-winged blackbirds, house sparrows, grackles)

This would include such animals as, porcupines and groundhogs. These animals are still protected in that the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act still applies. Therefore you still require a hunting licence, must comply with all other hunting rules like unloaded in a vehicle, plugged shotgun, etc., but there is no closed season and there is not a limit on the number of animals which may be hunted.

This licence is not valid in northern Ontario and part of central Ontario from June 16 to August 31 except for hunting by falconry and hunting game birds on a game bird hunting preserve.
 
HUNTING:
Includes lying in wait for, searching for, being on the trail of, pursuing,
chasing or shooting at wildlife, whether or not the wildlife is killed,
injured, captured or harassed.
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The way this is written you could be in sh!t for being a bird watcher...
 
Definitely need a Hunting license for hunting anything in Ontario, varmint or otherwise!!(you would need your outdoor card with the "small game" endorsement on back)....How's that, and i live in Saskatchewan!
 
Farmers
(3) Despite subsection (1)’s requirement for a licence, a farmer or a member of a farmer’s family who resides with the farmer may, during the open season and without a licence, on the farmer’s land,
(a) hunt or trap furbearing mammals;
(b) hunt or trap game mammals, other than black bear, white-tailed deer, moose, caribou or elk;
(c) hunt game birds, other than wild turkey;
(d) hunt or trap game reptiles or game amphibians;
(e) hunt birds referred to in subsection 5 (2); and
(f) hunt wildlife referred to in clause (1) (h). 1997, c. 41, s. 6.
 
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