Banding requirements; microchips

(a) A falconer, upon capturing a raptor from the wild, shall immediately band the bird with a permanent non-reusable band provided by the commissioner or the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. (b) A falconer shall not obtain or have in their possession a captive-bred or hybrid raptor unless the bird is banded with a seamless numbered band. (c) When any band becomes mutilated, illegible or lost, the falconer shall submit to the commissioner a United States Fish and Wildlife Service Form 3-186A and request a replacement band within five calendar days. The mutilated or illegible band shall be returned to the commissioner at the time the new band is attached to the raptor. (d) The commissioner or a United States Fish & Wildlife Service authorized federal bird bander shall remove from the raptor prior to its release the band affixed in subsection (a) of this section and shall attach a standard federal bird band to such birds. (e) Upon death of any raptor held under a falconry permit, the falconer shall submit to the commissioner a United States Fish and Wildlife Service Form 3-186A and return the band taken from the raptor within five calendar days. The carcass shall be disposed of within five calendar days by burying or incineration, unless other arrangements are made with the commissioner.