Schaumburg, IL Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

Section 92.90, the chapter's animal-care standards, folds in a direct wild-bird protection: subsection (L) makes it unlawful for any person to take the nest, eggs, or young of any bird protected by federal or state law, backing federal statutes such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act with a locally enforceable village-code violation rather than leaving enforcement solely to federal agencies. Subsection (M) of the same section separately bars keeping or displaying any wild animal, including a wild bird, contrary to federal, state, or local law.

For feeders that draw songbirds, § 92.30(P) limits a property to four hanging feeders per zoning lot, none with a feeder base larger than one hundred square inches, each designed to minimize spillage and nuisance, and each sited at least five feet inside the property line. Kept pigeons get their own licensing scheme: § 92.22 requires every pigeon four months of age or older harbored in the village to be licensed annually, limits each zoning lot to a single pigeon license regardless of flock size, and flatly bans licensed pigeons from flying anywhere within Schaumburg's corporate limits. Section 92.23 routes the pigeon license application through the finance department with a fee under § 41.01, conditions issuance on a community development department inspection of the premises and an approved health maintenance program, and runs the license year from January 1 through December 31. The director of community development can suspend a pigeon license for unsanitary conditions, appealable first to the village manager and then, if the suspension is continued, to the village president and board of trustees within fifteen days.