N.M. Admin. Code § 19.35.8.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Band" shall mean a permanent, nonreusable, numbered federal raptor leg band supplied by the department or by the USFWS.

B. "Department" shall mean the New Mexico department of game and fish.

C. "Eyass" shall mean a young raptor not yet capable of flight.

D. "Falconry" shall mean the ownership, caring for, and training of raptors for the pursuit of wild game, and hunting wild game with raptors. Falconry includes the taking, or possession of captive bred or wild raptors to use in the sport; and includes the transfer, and transporting of raptors.

E. "Hack" or "hacking" shall mean the temporary release of a raptor held for falconry to the wild so that it may survive on its own.

F. "Hybrid" means offspring of any one species in Section 10.13 of Subchapter B of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations and any other species, or of any two species in Section 10.13 of Subchapter B of this chapter, and any progeny of those birds.

G. "Imping" to graft or repair (a wing, tail, or feather) with a feather to improve a falcon's flying capacity.

H. "Imprint" shall mean a raptor that is hand-raised in isolation from two weeks of age until it has fledged, and has identified itself with humans rather than its own species. An imprinted raptor is considered to be so for its entire lifetime.

I. "Microchip" shall mean an ISO (international organization for standardization) compliant (134.2 khz) microchip purchased and supplied by the falconer permit holder.

J. "Passage bird" shall mean a raptor in its first year.

K. "Raptors" shall mean a migratory bird of the Order Accipitriformes, the Order Falconiformes or the Order Strigiformes listed in Section 10.13 of Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations, including the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), and the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).

L. "Raptor-taking permits" shall mean permits to take raptors from the wild for falconry purposes.

M. "Temporary foreign visitor" shall mean a foreign national, not an alien residing permanently in the United States, who qualifies as a general or master class falconer.

N. "USFWS" shall mean the United States fish and wildlife service.

Notes

N.M. Admin. Code § 19.35.8.7

19.35.8.7 NMAC - Rp, 19 NMAC 35.1.7, 1/1/2012