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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rjackb" data-source="post: 1698624" data-attributes="member: 38317">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which is responsible for enforcing the MBTA, makes several notable exceptions to the MBTA. One exception of particular relevance to this thread is "A special purpose permit is given to those who can make a sufficient showing of benefit to the migratory bird resource, important research reasons, reasons of human concern for individual birds (my emphasis), or other compelling justification."I suspect that if the FWS were to try to prosecute a case such as this, the prosecuting attorney would never even file any charges since they would be so absurd. Don't forget that the U.S. judicial system relies heavily on both the intent of the law as well as precedent.</blockquote>