Wild Animals Preservation Law

1. Citation. This Law may be cited as the Wild Animals Preservation Law.

2. Application. This Law shall apply to the Bendel State: Provided that the Executive Council may by order suspend the operation of this Law or of any of the provisions thereof, either as to the whole State or as to any part thereof.

3. Interpretation In this Law – “animal” or “species” means all vertebrates and invertebrates (including nonedible fish), their nests, eggs, egg-shells, skins and plumage; [Third Schedule.] “game bird” means any bird Mentioned in the Third Schedule; [Third Schedule.] “hunt” includes an attempt to kill or capture, and also an intentional -causing of injury, or an attempt to cause injury, to an animal or bird; “protected animal” means any of the animals mentioned in the First or Second Schedules; [First and Second Schedules.] “protected bird” means any of the birds mentioned in the First or Second Schedules; “provincial forest officer” means the Senior Assistant Conservator of Forests or Assistant Conservator of Forests within whose territorial charge anything is done Under this Law; [No. 3 of 1976.] “resident non-citizen” means a non-citizen who has satisfied the provincial forest officer of the province in which he resides that he is a bona fide resident in the Bendel State; “trophy” means any protected animal dead or alive or anything part of or produced from any such animal when dead or any protected bird, or the eggs, eggshells, rests or plumage of any such bird, but does not include any trophy or part of a trophy which by a process of bona fide manufacture has lost its original identity; “visitor?’ means a person who visits the, Bendel State wholly or partly for sporting purposes not being a public officer or a resident non-citizen or a citizen.

4. Animals not to be hunted, etc., without special licence. (1) No person shall hunt, kill or capture - (a) any of the animals or birds mentioned in the First Schedule; (b) any of the animals mentioned in the First or Second Schedules if the animal be (a) immature or (b) a female accompanied by her young; or (c) any female antelope, unless is he is authorised by a special licence or other authority under this Law. [First and Second Schedule.] (2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of two hundred naira or, if the offence relates to more animals than two, a fine of one hundred naira in respect of each animal or in default, in either case, imprisonment for six months: Provided that in the case of an offence under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section if the offender shall satisfy the court that he committed the offence unintentionally, he shall be liable to a fine of two naira for a first offence and of ten naira for any subsequent offence.

5. Animals not to be hunted without a licence. (1) (1) No person, unless he is authorised under this Law shall hunt, kill or capture any animal or bird mentioned in the Second Schedule. [Second Schedule.] (2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of one hundred naira or, if the offence relates to more animals than two, a fine of fifty naira in respect of each animal or in default, in either case, imprisonment for three months.

6. Game birds not to be hunted without a licence. (1) No person, unless he is authorised under this Law shall hunt, kill or capture any of the birds mentioned in the Third Schedule: [Third Schedule.] Provided that any person who is granted a licence to use a shotgun under the provisions of the Firearms Act, may hunt and kill such birds with such shotgun without further authorisation under the provisions of this Law. [F. & L. 1958, Cap. 69.] (2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of ten naira.

7. Eggs of protected birds not to be taken. No person, unless he is authorised under this Law shall take the egg of a protected bird except if the bird is kept in a domesticated state.

8. Power to vary Schedules. The Executive Council may, either in respect of the whole of the State or any province, district or other area thereof, by regulations - (a) remove any animal or bird from any of the Schedules; (b) declare that the name of any species, variety or sex of animal or bird not mentioned in any Schedule, shall be added to a particular Schedule; (c) declare that the name of any species, variety or sex of animal or bird in one Schedule shall be transferred to another Schedule; (d) prescribe or alter the number of the animals or birds of any species for the time being included in the Second Schedule, which may be hunted, killed or captured under a licence; (e) prescribe, add to or alter the areas in which any of the animals or birds mentioned in the Schedules may not be hunted, killed or captured unless authorised under this Law.

9. Prohibition on having trophies without permission. (1) Save with the permission in writing of a provincial forest officer no person shall possess, purchase, sell or transfer any trophy or manufacture anything from any trophy, and such permission shall not be given unless the provincial forest officer is satisfied that the trophy has been lawfully obtained. (2) Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of fifty naira or in default to imprisonment with or without hard labour for three months and in addition to the forfeiture of the trophy in respect of which he has been convicted.

10. Exception to provisions of section 9. Nothing in section 9 shall be deemed to prohibit - (a) the possession, sale, or purchase of any animal, bird or thing which has been forfeited to or is the property of the Government, and which has been sold by the order of the Military Governor; (b) the sale of any animal, bird or thing, other than an animal, bird or thing liable to forfeiture under this Law, forming part of the estate of a-deceased person, if sold by the personal representative of the deceased person; (c) the sale or purchase by a native of the flesh of any protected animal or bird which has been killed under a licence or permit.

11. Prohibition of sale, etc., of powdered rhinoceros horn. No person shall possess, sell, purchase or transfer any powdered rhinoceros horn.

12. Certificate in respect of ivory or rhinoceros horn lawfully obtained (1) Any person in possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn lawfully obtained may obtain from a person authorised to grant licences under section 21 a permit to dispose freely of such ivory or horn. (2) Such permit shall be known as a free disposal permit and shall be in such form as may be prescribed. (3) Any ivory or rhinoceros horn in respect of which such permit has! pot been obtained shall be deemed to have been obtained in contravention of this Law.

13. Animal killed in self defence. Notwithstanding anything in this Law contained, no person shall be deemed to have committed an offence against this Law by reason of. his having killed or injured any animal or bird in defence of himself or any other person, but he shall report such occurrence without delay to the provincial forest officer, and when the animal killed is an elephant or rhinoceros shall cause the tusks or horn to be taken to a government station and handed over to the provincial forest officer.

14. Remains of animals found. When the carcass or remains of any protected animal or any protected bird shall be found, the head, horns, tusks and feathers of such animal or bird shall be the property of the government: Provided that the Military Governor may - (a) waive this right in any case as he may deem fit; (b) direct the payment to any person of such compensation as shall cover the cost of the transport of any ivory or rhinoceros horn to the nearest government station; (c) direct the payment of rewards for the finding of ivory or rhinoceros horn.

15. Onus of proof. Whenever a person shall be charged with the offence of being in possession of or selling or transferring or exporting or attempting to export any ivory or rhinoceros horn obtained in contravention of this Law or of any Ordinance repealed by the Wild Animals Preservation Act it shall be sufficient if the summons or charge shall allege that the ivory or horn was obtained in contravention of the law, without specifying the law, and the onus shall then be on the person accused to produce satisfactory proof that the ivory or horn was lawfully obtained: [F. & L. 1958, Cap. 221.] Provided that if the person accused shall fail to produce such proof but there shall not be sufficient evidence to prove that such person knew or ought to have known that the ivory or horn was obtained in contravention of the law, the ivory or horn shall be forfeited, but the person accused shall not be liable to either a fine or imprisonment.

16. Restriction on killing fish. No person shall use any poison or, without a licence from the Military Governor, any dynamite or other explosive for the killing or taking of any fish.

17. Use of motor vehicle or aircraft for hunting prohibited. No person shall use any motor vehicle or aircraft (which term shall include aircraft lighter than air) either for the purpose of hunting, killing or capturing any animal or bird or for the purpose of driving, stampeding or disturbing any such animal or bird for any purpose whatsoever including that of filming or photographing: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the right of occupiers in respect of land occupied by them or of the Government in respect of land utilised for public purposes, to use motor vehicles or aircraft for the purpose of driving away, capturing or destroying any animal or bird found on such land where such ejection, capture or destruction is not otherwise contrary to law.

18. Power to prohibit destructive methods of capture. Where it appears to the Executive Council that any method used for killing or capturing animals, birds or fish is unduly destructive, he may by regulations prohibit such method, or prescribe the conditions under which any method may be used; and if any person uses any method so prohibited or uses any method otherwise than according to the conditions so prescribed, he shall be liable to the same penalties as for a breach of the law.

19. Power to declare a close season. (1) The Executive Council may by regulations declare any area to be closed for any specified period in respect of the killing or capturing of all or any species of protected animals or protected birds or game birds. (2) Any person who shall hunt, kill or capture or attempt to kill or capture, or who shall have in his possession any animal or bird killed or captured in contravention of any such regulations shall be liable to a fine of one hundred naira.

20. Power to declare game reserves. (1) The Executive Council may by regulations declare any area to be a game reserve, and may define or alter the limits of any game reserve. (2) Prohibition of hunting, etc., within reserve. - Save as provided in this Law, any person who hunts, kills or captures any animal in a game reserve, or is found within a game reserve in circumstances showing that he was unlawfully in pursuit of any animal shall be guilty of a breach of this Law. (3) Meaning of “animal" in the section. - For the purpose of this section and of the provisions of this Law relating to reserves the term “animal” means mammals and birds, but does not include any animal kept in a domesticated state.

21. Licences and by whom issued. (1) The following licences may be granted by the Military Governor or by such persons may be authorised by the Military Governor - (a) a resident non-citizen’s licence; (b) a visitor’s licence; (c) a fortnightly licence; (d) a bird licence. (2) Fees for licences - The following fees shall be payable for licences, (that is to say, for a resident non-citizen’s licence, four naira; for a visitor’s licence, twenty naira; for a fortnightly licence, one naira; for a bird licence, fifty kobo. (3) Duration of licences- A resident non-citizen’s licence and a visitor’s licence shall be in force for one year from the date of issue, but subject to the regulations may be renewed from month to month on payment of the prescribed fee. (4) A fortnightly licence shall be in force for fourteen days from the date of issue of such licence but not more than one such licence shall be issued to the same person within a per od of twelve months. (5) A bird licence shall be in force for one year from the date of issue. (6) Licence not transferable. - No licence granted under this Law shall be transferred. (7) To be produced when called for. - Every licence must be produced when called for by any administrative, police or forest officer, and any licence holder who fails, without reasonable cause, to produce it when called for shall be guilty of an offence against this Law.

22. Animals which may be killed. (1) A resident non-citizen’s licence and a visitor’s licence respectively authorise the holder to hunt, kill or capture animals and birds of any of the species mentioned in the Second or Third Schedules but, unless the licence otherwise provides, not more than the number of each species mentioned in the Second Schedule fixed by the second column of that Schedule. [Second and Third Schedules.] (2) A fortnightly licence authorises the holder to hunt, kill or capture animals and birds of any of the species included in the Second or Third Schedules, provided that the total number of protected animals and protected birds killed or captured under such licence does not exceed ten, and that the number of any species mentioned in the Second Schedule does not exceed the number fixed in the second column ofthat Schedule. (3) The holder of a resident non-citizen’s licence or of a visitor’s licence may by the licence be authorised to kill or capture additional animals or birds of any species included in the Second Schedule on payment of such additional fees as may be prescribed by the Military Governor.

23. To whom resident non-citizen’s licence may be granted. A resident non-citizen’s licence shall not be granted except to a public officer of Nigeria or to a resident non-citizen, or, with the consent of the Military Governor, to a native who is able to keep the register required by section 31.

24. Bird licence. A bird licence authorises the holder thereof to hunt, kill and capture birds of the species mentioned in the Third Schedule. [Third Schedule.]

25. Special licences. (1) The Military Governor may for scientific or administrative purposes in exceptional circumstances grant a special licence to any person authorising him to hunt, kill or Capture- (a) any specified species of animal or bird in any area declared to be a game reserve; (b) any specified species of protected animals (other than elephant or rhinoceros) mentioned in the First Schedule, in any area other than an area declared to be a game reserve. (2) Such special licences small be subject to such conditions as the Military Governor may by endorsement on the licence impose.

26. Power to authorise destruction of animals inuring food supplies or crops, or endangering life. f it shall be shown to the satisfaction of a provincial forest officer of a province, or any other officer appointed by the Military Governor in his behalf, that it is necessary, in order to protect the lives of any persons or to prevent the destruction of crops or of domestic stock or in time of famine or for any requirement relating to public health or public order, that any protected animal or protected bird shall be destroyed, the provincial forest officer or other officer as aforesaid may authorise any person to kill such animals or birds for such period and fey such methods (even though prohibited by the provisions of this Law or the regulations made thereunder) and subject to such condition as he may direct with due regard to the prevention of any unnecessary destruction of protected animals or birds: Provided that such authority shall not be granted in the case of animals or birds in a game reserve.

27. Special licence to kill elephant or rhinoceros. (1) Any person authorised to grant licences under section 21 may, on the application of the holder of a resident non-citizen’s licence or a visitor’s licence, grant a special licence authorising such person to hunt, kill or capture either one or two elephants or rhinoceros as the applicant shall require and as shall be specified therein. Such special licence shall not authorise the holder to hunt, kill or capture any elephant having tusks weighing less than twenty-two pounds each. (2) There shall be paid for such special licence the following fees - For a licence to hunt, kill or capture one elephant or rhinoceros, twenty naira. For a licence to hunt, kill or capture two elephants or rhinoceros, sixty naira. (3) Every licence granted under this section shall expire on the same date as the resident non-citizen’s or visitor’s licence held at the time, of the granting of such special licence by the person to whom the same shall be granted and only one such special licence shall be granted, to such person during the period of any such resident non- citizen’s or visitor’s licence: Provided however if such person shall have taken out a special licence authorizing him to hunt, kill or capture one elephant or rhinoceros only, he may, on payment of a further fee of forty naira, be granted a licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture a second elephant or rhinoceros.

28. Original licence to be endorsed. Every person who shall obtain a special licence under the last preceding section shall produce to the officer granting the same his resident non-citizen’s or visitor’s licence and such officer shall endorse thereon the fact of such special licence having been granted and t le nature of the licence.

29. When licence is not used. When the holder of a resident non-citizen’s or visitor’s licence or a special elephant or rhinoceros licence has been prevented by circumstances beyond his own control from making any use of such licence, he shall be granted on application a similar licence free of charge at any time within five years from the date of his unused licence.

30. Holder of an elephant or rhinoceros licence may obtain certificate of free disposal. The holder of a special elephant or rhinoceros licence shall, on presentation to any person authorised to issue licences under section 21 of the tusk or horn of any elephant or rhinoceros killed by him under the authority of his licence, be entitled to4 receive a free disposal permit in respect of each such tusk or horn, and every tusk or horn disposed of by him shall be accompanied by the said permit.

31. Register to be kept by licence holders. (1) Every holder of a licence, other than a bird licence, shall keep a register in the prescribed form and shall enter therein, as soon as conveniently may be after killing or capturing any protected animal or protected bird', the species and number of the animals and birds killed or captured, and shall whenever required by the provincial forest officer, produce such register for inspection, and shall, if required by the provincial forest officer certify in writing over his signature that the register is a complete record of all protected animals and protected birds killed or captured during the currency of his licence. (2) Every holder of a licence shall, within fifteen days after his licence has expired, send the register to the Military Governor and shall therein certify as in the preceding subsection provided. (3) Failure to keep orproduce register an offence. - If any holder of a licence fails to keep his register truly, or to produce, send or certify it as required, he shall be liable to a fine of one hundred naira.

32. Revocation and refusal of licences The Military Governor may – (a) revoke any licence when he is satisfied that the holder has been guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this Law or of the conditions of his licence, or has connived with any other person in any such breach, or that in any matters in relation thereto he has acted otherwise than in good faith; (b) refuse a licence or direct that a licence shall be refused to any applicant; or (c) require any applicant for a licence to give security, by bond or by deposit, for such sum, not exceeding three hundred naira, as the Military Governor may determine, for his compliance with this Law and the conditions of his licence.

33. Licence does not authorise trespass. No licence under this Law shall be deemed to authorise the holder thereof to enter upon private land for the purpose of hunting without the consent of the owner or occupier.

34. Importer of firearms may be required to take out a licence. The Military Governor or any person authorised by him in that behalf may require any person importing firearms or ammunition that may be used by such person for the purpose of killing animals to take out a licence under this Law and may refuse to allow the firearms or ammunition to be taken from the warehouse until such licence is taken out. Save as aforesaid, nothing in this Law shall affect the provision of any enactment regulating the importation or-possession of firearms.

35. Where servant may assist. (1) Persons in the employment of holders of licences may, without licence, assist such holders of licences in hunting animals, but shall not use firearms, bows or arrows. (2) Licence may be forfeited. -In any case of a breach of the provisions of this section the licence holder shall be liable to a fine of one hundred naira and his licence may be forfeited.

36. Bird licence not required by citizen of Nigeria. Subject to the provisions of any regulations under section 19 any citizen bf Nigeria may hunt, kill or capture without a licence any game birds, provided that he does not use for such purpose any firearm other than a flint-lock gun.

37. Authority to kill protected animals and birds. (1) A provincial forest officer or any other officer appointed by the Military Governor in this behalf may grant a permit to any citizen or group of citizens of Nigeria to hunt, kill or capture any animal or bird mentioned in the Second Schedule to this law, or, with the sanction of the Military Governor, any animal or bird mentioned in the First Schedule. Such permit shall specify the species and the number of each species which may be killed or captured and may specify the mode of hunting and the area over which and the seasons during which the citizen or group of citizens may hunt in pursuance of such permit. [First and Second Schedules.] (2) No permit shall authorise the killing of - (a) a female antelope; or (b) any protected animal, if the animal be - (i) immature; or (ii) a female accompanied by its young. (3) Whenever a permit shall authorise the hunting, killing and capturing of an elephant or rhinoceros the following conditions shall apply - (a) no female elephant or rhinoceros, or elephant having tusks weighing less than twenty-two pounds each shall be hunted, killed or captured; (b) the citizen or the head of the group of citizens to whom ’the permit is granted shall report without delay the killing of any elephant or rhinoceros to the provincial forest officer and shall deposit the tusks or horn with that officer; (c) the officer with whom any tusks are deposited under the last preceding paragraph shall cause the same to be weighed, and if each tusk weighs not less than twenty-two pounds then the person depositing the same shall pay, by way of royalty to the Government, twenty kobo for every pound weight of ivory, the officer shall permit such person to retain the tusks, but otherwise the tusks shall be the property of the Government and shall be dealt with as the Military Governor may direct; (d) any rhinoceros horn deposited under the provisions of paragraph (6) shall be returned to the person depositing the same. (4) Any person authorised to grant a permit under this section may at any time cancel the same if he is satisfied that any person to whom the same has been granted has hunted, killed or captured any protected animal or bird which he was not authorised by the permit to hunt, kill and capture, or has committed a breach of any of the conditions of the permit.

38. Power to search and seize. Where any police or forest officer thinks it expedient for the purposes of verifying the register of a licence holder, or suspects that any person has been guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this Law or of the conditions of his licence or permit, he may inspect and search, or authorise any subordinate officer to inspect and search, any baggage, package, wagon, tent, building, or caravan belonging to or under the control of such person, or his agent, and if the officer finds any head, horn, tusk, skin, feather or other remains of any minimal or bird appearing to have been killed, or any live animal or bird appearing to have been captured, in contravention of this Law, he shall seize and take the same before the Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.

39. Penalties. (1) Any person who commits any breach of the provisions of this Law, or of the conditions of his licence or permit for which breach no special penalty is prescribed, shall on conviction be liable to a fine of one hundred naira. (2) Forfeiture on conviction. - In all cases of conviction for any offence under this Law, the heads, horns, tusks, skins or other remains of animals or birds found in the possession of the offender or his agent, shall be liable to forfeiture, unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that they were not obtained in contravention of this Law and all live animals or birds captured in contravention of this Law, shall be liable to forfeiture. (3) Revocation of licences by court. - If the person convicted is the holder of a licence his licence may be revoked by the court.

40. Payment of informers. Where in any proceeding under this Law any fine is imposed, the court may award any sum not exceeding half the total fine recovered to any informer.

41. Summary trial All offences under this Law may be tried summarily. General Provisions

42. Power to make regulations. The Executive Council may make regulations in respect of the following matters - (a) the application for, issue and form of licences; (b) requiring the holder of any special licence granted under section 25 or section 27 before hunting under such licence in any province to submit the licence for endorsement by the provincial forest officer; (c) the issue of a duplicate licence in the case of a licence being lost or destroyed and prescribing the fee to be paid; (d) providing for the issue of licences to ostrich farmers, authorising the collection pf the eggs of wild ostriches and the capture of young ostriches, and prescribing the conditions to be attached to such licences and the fees to be paid therefore; (e) prohibiting or regulating the capture or killing of fish or of any specified kind office either generally or in respect of any specified waters; (f) prohibiting the use of any specified kind of net or instrument for the killing or capture of fish; (g) the protection of spawning beds; (h) prohibiting the firing at animals or birds from any steamship on the inland waters; (i) prohibiting the use of poison for the purpose of killing any animal or bird; (j) prohibiting the marking or use of any game pits, nets or traps for the purpose of killing or capturing any animal or bird; (k) prohibiting the use of fire for the purpose of hunting, killing or capturing any animal or bird; (l) providing for the marking with identifying marks of elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns; (m) prohibiting the possession of any specified kind of arms, lamp or any other article used or likely to be used or capable of being used in hunting; (n) prohibiting the carrying of any specified kinds of arms, lamps, or any other articles while hunting; and (o) generally for the carrying out of the purposes of this Law. Schedule 1 WILD ANIMALS PRESERVATION LAW Animals and birds which may not be hunted, killed or captured (except under a special licence) - Aardvark. Aardwolf. Abyssinian Ibex or Wali. Abyssinian Wolf. Banded Duiker. Barbary Stag. Bongo. Chimpanzee. Crested Bush Rat. Eland. Elephant. Fossa. Giant Sable Antelope. Giraffe. Gorilla. Hippopotamus - when found in or on the banks of the rivers and creeks within a radius of fifteen miles of Aboh in so far as such rivers and creeks are situate within the Bendel State. Madagascar Lemur. Manatee. Mountain Nyala or Buxton's Bush Buck. Mountain Zebra. Northern Hartebeest or Bubal. Nubian Ibex or Bedin. Nyala. Okapi. Otter Shrew. Pangolin. Rhinoceros. Water Chevrotain. Wild Ass. Yellow-backed Duiker. Abyssinian Ground Chough. African Broadbill. African Peacock. African Yellow-billed Swallow. Bald-headed Ibis or Waldrapp. Buff-racked Heron. Egret. European White Stork. Flightless Rail of Inaccessible Island. Marabou Stqrk. Northern Secretary Bird. Ostrich. Owl. Rhinoceros Bird. Secretary Bird. Vulture. Whale-headed Stork or Shoe-bill. White-breasted Guinea Fowl. Fishes of the Grottoes pf Thysville. Schedule 2 WILD ANIMALS PRESERVATION LAW Animals and birds which may be hunted, killed or captured under a visitor's or resident noncitizen's licence - Species Number which may be killed or captured

Addra Gazelle (Rufi collis) .................................................................................................. 2 Beira ................................................................................................................................... 1 Bontebok ........................................................................................................................... 1 Buffalo ................................................................................................................................ 4 Buffon's Kob (Cobus cob)................................................................................................... 8 Busn Buck or Harnessed Antelope....................................................................................... 4 Colobus Monkey ................................................................................................................ 2 Dama Gazelle ...................................................................................................................... 2 Dibatag or Clarke's Gazelle .................................................................................................. 1 Dorcas ................................................................................................................................. 2 Duiker (all species except the Yellow-backed and Banded Duiker)........................................ 20 Hartebeest ........................................................................................................................... 4 Hippopotamus (except where included in the First Schedule).................................................. 2 Impala.................................................................................................................................. 1 Klipspringer.......................................................................................................................... 3 Oribi..................................................................................................................................... 8 Oryx (white) ........................................................................................................................ 2 Reed Buck........................................................................................................................... 4 Roan Antelope...................................................................................................................... 4 Senegal Hartebeest................................................................................................................ 4 Senegal or Red-fronted Gazelle (Rufi frons) ............................................................................4 Situtunga................................................................................................................................ 4 Wart Hog............................................................................................................................... 4 Water Buck............................................................................................................................ 4 White-tailed Gnu .................................................................................................................... 1 In the case of the animals marked with an above the Military Governor may allow a larger number, not exceeding double that stated, to be killed in certain special districts where the particular species is abundant, and the licence will be endorsed accordingly. Abyssinian Ground Bombili..................................................................................................... 1 Crowned Crane...................................................................................................................... 2 Greater Bustard...................................................................................................................... 2 Greater Kudu ......................................................................................................................... 1 Schedule 3 WILD ANIMALS PRESERVATION LAW Game Birds Duck, Widgeon. Mallard. Floricans. Francolins. Geese. Guinea Fowl. Lesser Bustards. Partridges. Quail. Red-eyed and Green Pigeons. Rock Fowl. Sand Grouse. Snipe. Teal.