Local wildlife information

Wildlife control in Alabama

Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.

Wildlife in Alabama: what to know

Around Alabama

Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.

What to note

Where you see wildlife, how long it has been going on, and anything you’ve already tried are the most useful details to mention.

A useful next step

Ask about an inspection, what treatment would involve, and whether follow-up visits are included. You don’t need to identify the problem yourself before getting in touch.

Local research

Wildlife in Alabama: what the public record shows

Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which wildlife actually live in Alabama, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.

Permitted by the Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries to take protected wildlife

Permitted nuisance wildlife control operators

The Division permits operators to remove protected wildlife but does not otherwise regulate them.

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

One animal per incident without a permit

Homeowner self-help limit

A property owner or tenant may take one squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, opossum, beaver or skunk per incident that is damaging their property.

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Issued by district office for feral hogs and other damaging wildlife

Wildlife damage permits

Property owners suffering damage apply through their local ADCNR district office.

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Nuisance Wildlife species recorded in Alabama

Raccoon (Procyon lotor) — Top terrestrial rabies vector in the East; relocation banned in most states.
Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) — Primary rabies reservoir in Texas and the central U.S.; Illinois requires euthanasia of trapped striped skunks.

Alabama regulation 220-2-.27 governs permits to take protected wildlife causing crop damage, property damage or a human safety concern.

Rules that apply in Alabama

ADCNR Alabama Nuisance Animal Control

For context, nationally

Around 4,000; more than 90% in wildlife — Animal rabies cases reported per year. CDC
More than 20% each — Skunks and foxes that expose people or pets and are rabid. CDC

Sources: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; Rabies in the United States: Protecting Public Health; Class A (commercial) Nuisance Wildlife Control Permit study packet (17 Ill. Adm. Code 525). Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources

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Alabaster

Humid Subtropical · suburban setting

Wildlife control in Alabama

Wildlife in Alabama: what to know

Around Alabama

What to note

A useful next step

Wildlife in Alabama: what the public record shows

Nuisance Wildlife species recorded in Alabama

Rules that apply in Alabama

For context, nationally

Explore Alabama cities

Alabaster

Auburn

Birmingham

Daphne

Decatur

Dothan

Enterprise

Florence

Gadsden

Hoover

Huntsville

Madison

Mobile

Montgomery

Opelika

Tuscaloosa

Vestavia Hills

Prattville

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