Tigard, OR Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

Tigard Municipal Code § 7.52.150, Animal, Bird, and Fish Prohibitions, protects wildlife inside the City of Tigard's public parks. It prohibits any person from hunting, harming, frightening, killing, trapping, or chasing any bird, fish, or animal. The verb list reaches frightening and chasing as well as killing and trapping, so contact with the animal is not required by the text. The only exception is conduct authorized by the Public Works Director. The section sits in Chapter 7.52, where § 7.52.010 declares the City Council's intention to exercise general supervision over public parks, public parkways, public squares, trails, greenways, playgrounds, and other recreation areas, and the provision is a park rule: its text does not mention private property.

Neighboring sections back it up. Section 7.52.140 bars the use of firearms, fireworks, or explosives of any kind in a park, including air guns, bb guns, or bows and arrows. Section 7.52.120 bars damaging or destroying any park tree, shrub, plant, structure, or appurtenance. Section 7.52.170 bars fishing, wading, swimming or bathing except in the places designated for those purposes. Outside the park chapter, § 7.32.150 separately makes it unlawful to use, cause to be used or encourage the use of any air gun, beanshooter, slingshot, bow and arrow, crossbow, or other similar contrivance in or upon any street, park, lane or alley, or other public place, with a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

Birds also appear in the noise rules: § 6.02.440(B)(5) lists keeping any animal or bird that creates noise in excess of the levels in § 6.02.430 as a violation.