16 U.S.C. § 4903 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) “Convention” means the amended Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed in Washington on March 3, 1973, and its Appendices. (2) “Exotic bird” means any live or dead Aves member not native to the 50 States or District of Columbia, including its eggs and offspring. It excludes (A) domestic poultry, dead sport-hunted, museum, or scientific specimens, and products made from them, and (B) birds in the families Phasianidae, Numididae, Cracidae, Meleagrididae, Megapodiidae, Anatidae, Struthionidae, Rheidae, Dromaiinae, and Gruidae. (3) “Import” and “importation” mean landing on, bringing into, introducing into, or attempting those acts in any place under United States jurisdiction. (4) “Person” includes private entities and their forms, federal, state, local, and foreign government officers and entities, States, municipalities, political subdivisions, and any other entity under United States jurisdiction. (5) “Qualifying facility” means an exotic-bird breeding facility on the Secretary’s section 4906 list. (6) “Secretary” means the Interior Secretary or that Secretary’s designee. (7) “Species” means a species, subspecies, or distinct population segment of either, and includes hybrids of any species or subspecies. (8) “United States” means the 50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.