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What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How to report dead wild birds.
How to apply to import, export or re-export endangered animal and plant species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to preserve public health or safety.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to prevent serious damage.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
Guidance on the methods that can be used to help manage wild birds like geese, gulls and pigeons without a licence.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
How to assess a planning application when there are wild birds on or near a proposed development site.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Find out how to control wild geese populations using egg oiling or by round-up and culling, if you’re permitted to do so under the terms of your licence.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Get a general licence to remove abandoned or unsuccessful eggs from wild birds' nests between 1 September and 31 January.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
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