{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-2/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-2/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/69",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Outside the Close Season",
  "text": "Common name\nScientific name\nCapercaillie\nTetrao urogallus\nCoot\nFulica atra\nDuck, Tufted\nAythya fuligula\nGadwall\nAnas strepera\nGoldeneye\nBucephala clangula\nGoose, Canada\nBranta canadensis\nGoose, Greylag\nAnser anser\nGoose, Pink-footed\nAnser brachyrhynchus\nGoose, White-fronted (in England and Wales only) , except ... Greenland White-fronted Goose\nAnser albifrons except ... Anser albifrons flavirostris\nGrouse, Black\nTetrao tetrix\nGrouse, Red\nLagopus lagopus scoticus\nMallard\nAnas platyrhynchos\nMoorhen\nGallinula chloropus\nPartridge, Grey\nPerdix perdix\nPartridge, Red-legged\nAlectoris rufa\nPheasant, Common\nPhasianus colchicus\nPintail\nAnas acuta\nPlover, Golden\nPluvialis apricaria\nPochard\nAythya ferina\nPtarmigan\nLagopus mutus\nShoveler\nAnas clypeata\nSnipe, Common\nGallinago gallinago\nTeal\nAnas crecca\nWigeon\nAnas penelope\nWoodcock\nScolopax rusticola",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 words omitted (S.) (4.11.2001) by S.S.I. 2001/337 , reg. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 inserted (E.W.) (31.3.2020) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 2) (England) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/245), arts. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 omitted (E.W.) (1.4.2020) by virtue of The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 2) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/272), arts. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 inserted (E.W.) (31.3.2020) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 2) (England) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/245), arts. 1(1), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 1 omitted (E.W.) (1.4.2020) by virtue of The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 2) (Wales) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/272), arts. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 entries inserted (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) , ss. 3(7)(a) , 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279 , art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 entries inserted (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) , ss. 3(7)(b) , 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279 , art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. 1 entries inserted (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) , ss. 3(7)(c) , 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279 , art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/schedule/2/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:49.503545+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}