Hunting season
Krammetsvogel (Wacholderdrossel) Autonomous Community of the Basque Country
The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris), historically known in German as Krammetsvogel, is a 22 to 27 centimetre thrush with a grey head, chestnut back and yellow-orange bill. It is fully protected year-round under the German Federal Nature Conservation Act and no longer counts as a huntable species in Germany.
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When may Krammetsvogel (Wacholderdrossel) be hunted in Autonomous Community of the Basque Country?
Open ranges are highlighted. Closed (Schonzeit) months show as empty rows.
Exact dates
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: General · Bizkaia · Zorzal real
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-01-31
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: En pasos · Bizkaia · Zorzal real
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-01-31
En las líneas de pase no sujetas a ordenación específica, el periodo hábil será el comprendido entre el 12 de octubre de 2024 y el 31 de enero de 2025. Durante este periodo podrá cazarse todos los días de la semana. En estas líneas, los puestos de tiro, tanto aislados como en línea, serán fijos y habrán de estar emplazados necesariamente en las cumbres o zonas altas de las laderas. Por lo que se refiere a las líneas de pase ordenadas se regularán mediante Orden Foral del Departamento de Medio Natural y Agricultura.
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: General · Álava · Zorzal real
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-01-31· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: General (excl. En pasos) · Guipuzkoa · Zorzal real
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-01-31
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: En pasos · Guipuzkoa · Zorzal real
- 2025-09-15 → 2026-01-31
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: Puesto fijo paloma · Álava · Zorzal real
- 2025-10-01 → 2025-12-15
Palomas migratorias y zorzales (malvices) desde puestos debidamente autorizados de paloma: además de los días autorizados para la caza menor, desde el día 1 de octubre al día 15 de diciembre de 2025 ambos inclusive, sin limitación de días hábiles.
Zorzal Real · Modalidad: Puesto fijo zorzal · Álava · Zorzal real
- 2025-11-01 → 2026-01-31
En los puestos de malviz debidamente autorizados de los cotos de Rioja Alavesa, se podrá cazar todos los días desde el 1 de noviembre de 2025 hasta el 31 de enero de 2026.
About Krammetsvogel (Wacholderdrossel)
The fieldfare inhabits semi-open cultural landscapes with scattered trees, woodland edges, field copses, avenues, traditional orchards and larger parks and gardens. It prefers fresh to moist ground with short grass vegetation that serves as feeding habitat. The species is highly gregarious: outside the breeding season it travels in large flocks, often mixed with redwings, and feeds extensively on berries such as rowan, hawthorn and juniper during winter.
During the breeding season the fieldfare nests sociably in small colonies, typically of five to ten pairs, in tree rows or field copses. Colonial breeders defend their nests very vigorously against predators such as carrion crows and birds of prey, using coordinated mobbing flights and even targeted defecation on intruders.
Under the historical name Krammetsvogel, fieldfares were trapped in very large numbers until the early twentieth century, particularly on autumn migration using specially prepared heath sites and horsehair snares known as Dohnenstieg. Snare trapping was outlawed in 1908 by the Reichsvogelschutzgesetz. Today the fieldfare is listed as a specially protected species under the Federal Nature Conservation Act and has no open hunting season; its former role as game is only of cultural and linguistic significance.
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