{"id":12800,"date":"2017-07-16T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=12800"},"modified":"2017-07-16T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:43:32","slug":"2017-application-period-underway-for-peregrine-falcon-trapping-for-falconry-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/07\/16\/2017-application-period-underway-for-peregrine-falcon-trapping-for-falconry-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Application Period Underway for Peregrine Falcon Trapping for Falconry Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The 2017 application period for the trapping of a peregrine falcon to be used in falconry is underway, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The TWRA will award the one permit to the winner of a draw to be held on Wednesday, August 30th, 2017. Falconers may go to TWRA\u2019s website by clicking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tn.gov\/assets\/entities\/twra\/attachments\/Per._App._Form.pdf\" >here<\/a> for the print-ready application and also view the requirements. Resident and non-resident master and general falconers are eligible for participation in the draw. Completed applications must be postmarked by Wednesday, August 9th.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148613\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Peregrine-Falcon.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148613\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148613\" title=\"Peregrine Falcon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Peregrine-Falcon-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"Peregrine Falcon\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peregrine Falcon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Peregrine falcons may only be taken under the authority of the drawn permit from counties located in the TWRA\u2019s Region I (West Tennessee).<\/p>\n<p>This marks the seventh year that a permit will be issued in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Tennessee its first permit allowing the trapping of one Peregrine falcon for the use in falconry in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The population of Peregrine falcons, through state and federal conservation efforts, has recovered enough since their near-extinction in the early 20th century to allow for a limited take of these birds for the use in falconry.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the TWRA\u2019s Walter Cook at <a href=\"mailto:walter.cook@tn.gov\">walter.cook@tn.gov<\/a> or 615.781.6647.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The 2017 application period for the trapping of a peregrine falcon to be used in falconry is underway, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has announced. The TWRA will award the one permit to the winner of a draw to be held on Wednesday, August 30th, 2017. Falconers may go to TWRA\u2019s website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4006,284,4005,261,10475,608,973,3832,4007],"class_list":["post-12800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-falconry","tag-nashville-tn","tag-peregrine-falcon","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-peregrine-falcon-permit-draw","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra","tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service","tag-walter-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12801,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions\/12801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}