Unlisted small game? legal?

[Kenny_G2]

Red squirrels are protected. Habitat removal and competition almost wiped them out in the 70's. You can still shoot pest ones but hunting them is a strict no

I find this doubtful, the boreal forest is full of red squirrels, and it has never come close to being removed as red squirrel habitat.

Red Squirrels are not protected, thousands go to fur auction every year by trappers, usually kids learn the trade on them and weasels. At the last sale in January they were worth a buck a pelt.

 

[tjsudbury]

I find this doubtful, the boreal forest is full of red squirrels, and it has never come close to being removed as red squirrel habitat.

Red Squirrels are not protected, thousands go to fur auction every year by trappers, usually kids learn the trade on them and weasels. At the last sale in January they were worth a buck a pelt.

They were worth that back in the 70's when I was trapping. I remember meeting a trapper from BC at the OTA convention in North Bay back then that regularly took three or four thousand of them every year. His kids had the job of skinning all the little buggers.

 

[Ardent]

would be great if someone would link me to the list of illegal things like owls and black squirels.

I just have to ask, while your questions are fair and we all have to start at step 1, where you came to think Owls were fair game? They are among the most heavily protected creatures around, and for good reason. Question 2, why not start with the standard stuff, that tastes good? Rabbit and Grouse. I wouldn't go obscure for no reason.

 

[nowarningshot]

old thread....anyways. I had a question on this as well, sent a email to the CO's. I travel a bit up island and the sunshine coast. I have seen Turkey vultures cruising the coast and into the Fraser canyon....must be Union busting scabs....taking the ravens jobs.

Anyways, can you believe Turkey vultures are raptors and get the same protection as hawks, owls, and eagles??

 

[relic38]

^ Can I state that I have an absolute hatred of those cute little bastards known as chipmunks.
Are they shootable as a nuisance animal? So far they have made a mess of:
My attick, how they repeatedly get in there I have no idea.
My lawn mower (nesting and wiring chewing worse then mice
My lawn (why do they refuse to live in trees like normal squirrels and insist on digging tunnels in my lawn?).
My vehicles (again, nest building).

I have ended up shooting some "curiously patterned red squirrels" as nuisance animals but would like to know if I am within my right to shoot chipmunks as well.

Chipmunks generally do not live in trees. Usually in the ground or in old rotten or hollow trees. Summer nests can pop up anywhere, for me its wood piles, which do not bother me too much; just a mess I find in the winter.

The eastern chipmunk is a protected species in Ontario. I'm not sure if you can shoot them if they are a nuisance. I would call the MNR and explain your situation before acting.

 

[Squamch]

old thread....anyways. I had a question on this as well, sent a email to the CO's. I travel a bit up island and the sunshine coast. I have seen Turkey vultures cruising the coast and into the Fraser canyon....must be Union busting scabs....taking the ravens jobs.

Anyways, can you believe Turkey vultures are raptors and get the same protection as hawks, owls, and eagles??

absolutely. You know eagles are carrion eating scavengers too, right?

 

[hoytcanon]

^ Can I state that I have an absolute hatred of those cute little bastards known as chipmunks.
Are they shootable as a nuisance animal? So far they have made a mess of:
My attick, how they repeatedly get in there I have no idea.
My lawn mower (nesting and wiring chewing worse then mice
My lawn (why do they refuse to live in trees like normal squirrels and insist on digging tunnels in my lawn?).
My vehicles (again, nest building).

I have ended up shooting some "curiously patterned red squirrels" as nuisance animals but would like to know if I am within my right to shoot chipmunks as well.

Most provinces allow the shooting of animals that are doing property damage, but be careful with firearms laws while doing it.

Also, chipmunks dig holes for dens, but they don't tunnel in lawns... you probably have a mole infestation.

 

[Suther]

Any time you're hunting you must be licenced.

Not true, at least not in BC.

There is a whole list of animals you can hunt without a license here...

Schedule C

Schedule "C" animals can be captured or killed anywhere and at any time in BC. Schedule "C" birds may be hunted using electronic calls. You do not need a hunting licence to hunt or kill the following Schedule "C" wildlife:
(a) Rana catesbeiana - American bullfrog
(b) Rana clamitans - green frog
(c) all species of the family Chelydridae - snapping turtles
(d) Didelphis virginiana - North American opossum
(e) Sylvilagus floridanus - eastern cottontail
(f) Oryctolagus cuniculus - European rabbit
(g) Myocastor coypus - nutria
(h) all species of the genus Sciurus - gray squirrels and fox squirrels
(i) Passer domesticus - house sparrow
(j) Sturnus vulgaris - European starling
(k) Columbia livia - rock dove (domestic pigeon)

* from http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/lower-mainland/wildlife/species/species_lists.htm

 

[Ardent]

old thread....anyways. I had a question on this as well, sent a email to the CO's. I travel a bit up island and the sunshine coast. I have seen Turkey vultures cruising the coast and into the Fraser canyon....must be Union busting scabs....taking the ravens jobs.

Anyways, can you believe Turkey vultures are raptors and get the same protection as hawks, owls, and eagles??

Yes, they have an important ecological role, breed slow, and inhabit a very small area of Canada.

 

[9.3mauser]

Yes, they have an important ecological role, breed slow, and inhabit a very small area of Canada.

Their range is limited to the local dump/landfill in my experience.

 

[tjsudbury]

Yes, they have an important ecological role, breed slow, and inhabit a very small area of Canada.

Their range has been expanding here in Ontario over the last 35 years or so. Back then Parry Sound was about as far north that they could be found. Within a few years they could be seen around Sudbury. And now they are as far north as Cochrane.

 

[TERMINATOR101CA]

Quote Originally Posted by pomelum View Post
would be great if someone would link me to the list of illegal things like owls a

I just have to ask, while your questions are fair and we all have to start at step 1, where you came to think Owls were fair game? They are among the most heavily protected creatures around, and for good reason. Question 2, why not start with the standard stuff, that tastes good? Rabbit and Grouse. I wouldn't go obscure for no reason.

I don't think he ever thought owls were fair game .

 

[Quackman]

Not true, at least not in BC.

There is a whole list of animals you can hunt without a license here...

Schedule C

Schedule "C" animals can be captured or killed anywhere and at any time in BC. Schedule "C" birds may be hunted using electronic calls. You do not need a hunting licence to hunt or kill the following Schedule "C" wildlife:
(a) Rana catesbeiana - American bullfrog
(b) Rana clamitans - green frog
(c) all species of the family Chelydridae - snapping turtles
(d) Didelphis virginiana - North American opossum
(e) Sylvilagus floridanus - eastern cottontail
(f) Oryctolagus cuniculus - European rabbit
(g) Myocastor coypus - nutria
(h) all species of the genus Sciurus - gray squirrels and fox squirrels
(i) Passer domesticus - house sparrow
(j) Sturnus vulgaris - European starling
(k) Columbia livia - rock dove (domestic pigeon)

* from http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/lower-mainland/wildlife/species/species_lists.htm

These all appear to be invasives, hence the kill with extreme predjudice!

 

[Call_to_Arms]

Not true, at least not in BC.

There is a whole list of animals you can hunt without a license here...

Schedule C

Schedule "C" animals can be captured or killed anywhere and at any time in BC. Schedule "C" birds may be hunted using electronic calls. You do not need a hunting licence to hunt or kill the following Schedule "C" wildlife:
(a) Rana catesbeiana - American bullfrog
(b) Rana clamitans - green frog
(c) all species of the family Chelydridae - snapping turtles
(d) Didelphis virginiana - North American opossum
(e) Sylvilagus floridanus - eastern cottontail
(f) Oryctolagus cuniculus - European rabbit
(g) Myocastor coypus - nutria
(h) all species of the genus Sciurus - gray squirrels and fox squirrels
(i) Passer domesticus - house sparrow
(j) Sturnus vulgaris - European starling
(k) Columbia livia - rock dove (domestic pigeon)

* from http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/lower-mainland/wildlife/species/species_lists.htm

Must be nice! In Ontario you need a license, there is a season and there is a bag limit on squirrel, rabbit, turtles and frogs.... yes, frog season. Does anyone have a link like his for Ontario? I am patiently awaiting hunting season but it would be nice to get after something in the meantime.

 

[Jerek]

Here is a list for alberta

Part 12 of Schedule 15 states:

12(1) The open season for the hunting of non licence
animals is from January 1 to December 31,
except in Big Game Zone 17.
(2) There is no open season for the hunting of non
licence animals in Big Game Zone 17.

Big Game Zone 17 includes all WMUs with a number greater than 599,
except 841.


The complete listing of Non-Licence animals is as follows:

Part 6
Non licence Animals

Ambystoma tigrinum (Tiger Salamander)
Bufo boreas [Boreal (Western) Toad]
Pseudacris triseriata (Chorus Frog)
Rana sylvatica (Wood Frog)
Thamnophis sirtalis (Red sided Garter Snake)
Thamnophis radix (Plains Garter Snake)
Thamnophis elegans (Wandering Garter Snake)
Sorex cinereus (Masked Shrew)
Sorex haydeni (Prairie Shrew)
Sorex monticolus (Dusky Shrew)
Sorex palustris (Water Shrew)
Sorex arcticus (Arctic Shrew)
Myotis ciliolabrum (Small footed Myotis)
Myotis lucifugus (Little Brown Myotis)
Myotis volans (Long legged Myotis)
Myotis septentrionalis (Northern Long eared Myotis)
Myotis evotis (Long eared Myotis)
Lasionycteris noctivagans (Silver Haired Bat)
Eptesicus fuscus (Big Brown Bat)
Lasiurus borealis (Red Bat)
Lasiurus cinereus (Hoary Bat)
Ochotona princeps (American Pika)
Sylvilagus nuttallii (Nuttall's Cottontail)
Lepus americanus [Showshoe Hare (Varying Hare)]
Lepus townsendii (White tailed Jack Rabbit)
Tamias minimus (Least Chipmunk)
Marmota monax (Woodchuck)
Spermophilus richardsonii (Richardson's Ground Squirrel)
Spermophilus columbianus (Columbian Ground Squirrel)
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus (Thirteen lined Ground Squirrel)
Spermophilus franklinii (Franklin's Ground Squirrel)
Spermophilus lateralis (Golden mantled Ground Squirrel)
Sciurus carolinensis (Gray Squirrel)
Thomomys talpoides (Northern Pocket Gopher)
Perognathus fasciatus (Olive backed Pocket Mouse)
Peromyscus maniculatus (Deer Mouse)
Onychomys leucogaster (Northern Grasshopper Mouse)
Neotoma cinerea (Bushy tailed Wood Rat)
Clethrionomys gapperi (Gapper's Red backed Vole)
Phenacomys intermedius (Heather Vole)
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Meadow Vole)
Microtus longicaudus (Long tailed Vole)
Synaptomys borealis (Northern Bog Lemming)
Mus musculus (House Mouse)
Zapus hudsonius (Meadow Jumping Mouse)
Zapus princeps (Western Jumping Mouse)
Erethizon dorsatum (Porcupine)
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)
Mephitis mephitis (Striped Skunk)
Columba livia [Rock Dove (Pigeon)]
Pica pica (Black billed Magpie)
Corvus brachyrhynchos (American Crow)
Sturnus vulgaris (European Starling)
Agelaius phoeniceus (Red winged Blackbird)
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Yellow headed Blackbird)
Euphagus carolinus (Rusty Blackbird)
Euphagus cyanocephalus (Brewer's Blackbird)
Quiscalus quiscula (Common Grackle)
Molothrus ater (Brown headed Cowbird)
Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)
Any hybrid offspring resulting from the crossing of 2 non licence
animals

 

[Brutus]

You need to look at more than your Provincial hunting regs. You need to look at the Species At Risk Act and The Endangered Species Act et all too.
Any time you're hunting you must be licenced. Not all animals have a hunting season though. Ground hogs, for example, have no closed season in Ontario, but some of their cousins in B.C. are protected.
Isn't the opossum wolf a cousin of big foot that howls and hangs around in trees?

Making assumptions for everyone else once again sunray?

We don't need a stinking licence in Alberta for wild boar hunting or rabbit hunting. There are other species too. But these ones I am 110% sure of.