Hunting season
Urraca Catalonia
The Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) is unmistakable thanks to its black-and-white plumage and long tail. It counts among the most intelligent corvids in Central Europe and is hunted in many German federal states as part of small-game management to ease pressure on ground-nesting birds and young hares.
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When may Urraca be hunted in Catalonia?
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Exact dates
Modalidad: General · Terrenos cinegeticos de aprovechamiento común · Urraca
- 2025-10-12 → 2026-02-01· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
En las reservas nacionales de caza, reservas de caza y zonas de caza controlada, el periodo hábil de caza es elque indican los diferentes planes técnicos de gestión cinegética (PTGC) anuales. En los terrenos cinegéticos de régimen especial que no sean de reglamentación especial, los días hábiles quedan limitados a un máximo de tres días y festivos no locales. Los días hábiles quedarán fijados en el PTGC correspondiente, excepto en el ámbito territorial de las Comarcas de Les Terres de l'Ebre.
Modalidad: General · Terrenos de régimen cinegético especial · Urraca
- 2025-08-24 → 2025-08-24· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-08-31 → 2025-08-31· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-09-07 → 2025-09-07· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2025-09-14 → 2025-09-14· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat· Forbidden on public holidays
MEDIA VEDA. La caza en el periodo de media veda sólo se puede practicar en los terrenos cinegéticos de régimen especial que lo tengan aprobado en su PTGC. En la demarcación del Lleida y las comarcas de la Cerdanya y el Solsonès que los días hábiles serán los jueves, sábados, domingos y festivos dentro del periodo comprendido entre el 21 de agosto al 10 de septiembre, ambos incluidos.
Modalidad: General · Terrenys cinegètics de règim especial · Urraca
- 2023-08-20 → 2023-08-20· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-08-27 → 2023-08-27· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-09-03 → 2023-09-03· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-09-10 → 2023-09-10· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun· Forbidden on public holidays
- 2023-08-20 → 2023-09-10· Forbidden weekdays: mon,tue,wed,fri
Terrenys cinegètics de règim especial (exceptuando Lleida, comarcas de La Cerdanya y El Solsonès)
About Elster
The magpie inhabits structurally rich cultural landscapes with meadows, hedgerows, bushes and scattered groups of trees. Originally a bird of semi-open agricultural land, it has increasingly adapted to settlement edges, parks and gardens. More than half of the European breeding population now lives in urban or suburban habitats. Territories of four to six hectares are defended year-round, and pairs usually stay together for life.
Among native birds, the magpie is considered exceptionally intelligent. It passes the mirror self-recognition test and shows self-directed behaviour otherwise documented only in a few vertebrates. Relative to body size, its nidopallium caudolaterale is comparable in extent to the prefrontal cortex of great apes. These cognitive abilities are visible in everyday behaviour: pronounced social interaction, food caching and rapid learning from encounters with humans, all of which make magpies demanding quarry.
For practical hunting, the Deutsche Jagdverband (DJV) recommends Lockjagd (decoy hunting) as the principal method, often combined with a Krähenhütte hide as a covered shooting position. In some federal states, trap hunting using the Norwegian or Nordic crow trap is additionally permitted. Magpie hunting is embedded in Niederwild-Hege, small-game management: it aims to reduce predation pressure on ground-nesting birds and leverets and to support vulnerable species of the open countryside. Binding hunting seasons and permissible methods depend on the respective state hunting law.
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