The Wildlife and Countryside (Registration, Ringing and Marking of Certain Captive Birds) (England) Regulations 2015
These Regulations make provision about the registration and ringing or marking requirements applicable to birds included in Schedule 4 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the Act”). The Regulations revoke the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1221) and amending instruments. The Regulations apply only in relation to birds kept in England or registered in accordance with these Regulations as a consequence of having been kept in England, and certain birds (merlin and peregrine falcon) entered on the register of birds in respect of which a CITES certificate has been issued (and consequently treated as registered by virtue of regulation 7(1)). (For “CITES”, see below).