Pembroke Pines, FL Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

Adopted by Ordinance 852 on November 18, 1987, § 91.02 opens with a blanket declaration in division (A) that the city is hereby declared a bird sanctuary. Division (B) backs that up with an outright ban: it shall be unlawful to hunt, wound, molest, injure, or kill any birds or related wildlife in the lands embracing the city. The phrase 'related wildlife' extends the ban beyond birds alone to other wildlife sharing the same habitat within city limits, not just species classified as birds.

Division (C) adds a capture ban with one narrow carve-out: it shall be unlawful to capture, except for the preservation of the health and welfare of the public, for resale or private use, any birds or related wildlife in the city. Read against its own terms, the exception runs to capturing wildlife to protect public health and welfare, not to capturing for resale or private use, which the clause lists among the purposes the ordinance is written to stop. In practice this means a resident cannot legally trap a bird from their yard to keep, sell, or relocate it privately; only a public-health-driven removal falls outside the ban.

Section 91.02 sits in Chapter 91's General Provisions alongside the separate ban on feeding wild ducks in § 91.03, but the sanctuary declaration and hunting/capture ban in § 91.02 is a distinct, broader rule covering all birds and related wildlife citywide, not just ducks or feeding activity.