seriously $5000 fine in the States.
Mate of mine went home from having coffee with us lot just outside Houston to find his neighbour out in the front yard with 2 rangers - there had been a report of someone shooting herons..... Ham goes across to see if he could help his neighbour out but things weren't helped by a heron falling out of the tree above them and 'splat - dead as a dodo' inside the ring that they were standing in........
Fortunately the rangers didn't throw the book at his neighbour, just a 'stiff' chirping to.......