OAR 635-046-0040: Definitions

(1) “Approved Band” means a leg band purchased from the Department at a cost of $5.00 for 50 bands. (2) “Competitive Hunting Dog Trial” (sometimes called a “field trial”, “water trial”, “hunt test” or “picnic trial”) means an event that: (a) Is licensed, sanctioned, or sponsored by a sporting dog organization; and (b) Involves more than one person in testing or exhibiting learned behavior in dogs related to hunting wildlife (including, but not limited to, tracking of scents, flushing, pointing, treeing, ground baying and retrieval). (3) “Department” means the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. (4) “Exempt animals” means species listed in OAR 635-56-0020. (5) “Falconry” is caring for and training raptors for pursuit of game, and the sport of hunting wild game with raptors. (6) “Healed nasal scar” means a permanent deformity on the upper mandible of an upland game bird such as that caused by an anti-pecking device. (7) “Healed toe mark” results from the clipping of the terminal joint, including the entire toenail, from the lateral (outside) toe of the right foot of an upland game bird chick. (8) “Hunting Dog” means any dog that is used to aid an individual to pursue or hunt wildlife. (9) “Hunting Dog Training” means the use of wildlife by an individual or individuals on any lands or waters in the state for the purpose of training to teach or reinforce learned behavior in dogs related to hunting of wildlife; activities which may include shooting, tracking of scents, flushing, pointing, treeing, ground baying, going to ground, and/or retrieval of wildlife. (10) “Marked bird” for upland game birds means a domestically-raised upland game bird which displays one of the following: a healed toe mark, a healed nasal scar, or an approved band affixed to a leg; for mallards means a domestically-raised mallard which was marked in at least one of the methods approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (50 CFR 21.13). (11) “Pursue” for upland game birds means the act of locating, trailing, tracking, chasing, or flushing, but not taking, in an attempt to reinforce learned behavior in hunting dogs; for game mammals or furbearers means the act of trailing, tracking, or chasing in an attempt to locate, capture, catch, tree, or kill. (12) “Raptor” means any species or hybrid of the families Strigidae, Falconidae and Accipitridae used for Falconry. (13) “Raptor training” means the use of wildlife for the purpose of training of any species or hybrid of the families Strigidae, Falconidae and Accipitridae to hunt wildlife. (14) “Release” means, for the purpose of competitive hunting dog trials or hunting dog or raptor training, permitting any domestically-raised game birds to exist alive outside of an enclosure that restricts its movements.