What you must know
- Recognise the huntable species and tell them from protected species that look similar
- Know the basics of their biology: how they live, breed and what they eat
- Be able to find the open season for a species and know what is protected
Identification is your responsibility
You are responsible for knowing what you shoot at. The wrong species is not an accident in the eyes of the law — it is illegal killing, and for protected and threatened species it can be serious.
Take particular care with lookalikes: black grouse hen and capercaillie hen, lynx and a large domestic cat, hare and rabbit, eider and other diving ducks, a roe deer kid and a doe at long range in poor light.
Deer species
Moose, red deer, roe deer and wild reindeer are the four deer species we hunt. The moose is the largest and browses twigs and leaves; the red deer grazes more grass and herbs and has become the most numerous; the roe deer is the smallest and lives closest to farmland; the wild reindeer lives in herds in the high mountains and is the only one of the four where both sexes carry antlers.
Calves, yearlings and adults are treated differently in the quota. Judging the age of an animal in the field — size, body shape, behaviour in the group — is part of hunting.
Small game and large carnivores
Forest grouse (capercaillie, black grouse), ptarmigan, hare, fox, pine marten, badger, ducks and geese are the common small game species. Some have short seasons and local rules, and several have declined.
Bear, wolf, lynx and wolverine are managed through licensed culling and quota hunting with their own rules, not through ordinary hunting.
Read more in the Hunter's Handbook
Practise this session
Veida does not run courses and does not hold exams. The mandatory course must be taken with an approved provider, and the exam is taken in the «Jegerprøveeksamen» app through your municipality. These pages are revision and practice alongside the course. Our questions are written by us from public regulations — they are not exam questions.