Licence to Keep an Injured or Disabled Wild Bird

Under Section 22(9) of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (as amended) the Minister may grant a licence

to a person to have in possession for a reasonable period of time an injured or disabled wild bird, or one or more than one dependant young of a wild bird which is orphaned with the intention of tending and later releasing such bird or young back into the wild when and only when such bird or young, as the case may be, is no longer disabled or dependant.
To a person to retain possession of a wild bird, that for reasons of disability or for other reasons deemed reasonable by the Minister, would, if released, be unlikely to survive unaided in the wild.

Applications for permissions are made on a standard application form available from:

National Parks and Wildlife Service,

Main Street,

Ballybay,

Co Monaghan.

Tel: 1800 - 405000