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QUAIL
Season dates – Oct� 26 – Jan� 31, 2020
Daily bag/possession limits – 6/24
Open area – statewide, but no hunting on all state refuges
and sanctuaries
Remarks – Quail must be shot while in flight�
PHEASANT
Season dates – Oct� 26 – Jan� 31, 2020
Daily bag/possession limits – 3/12
Open area – statewide, but no hunting on all state refuges
and sanctuaries
Remarks – Only rooster pheasants may be harvested�
YOUTH PHEASANT, QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE *
Season dates – Oct� 19 - 20, 2019
Youth hunter daily bag/possession limits – 2/4 rooster pheasants, 2/4 quail, 2/4 partridge
Open area – statewide, but no hunting on all state refuges and sanctuaries
Remarks – Only rooster pheasants may be harvested� Quail must be shot while in flight�
* Special Youth Hunt – Youth may hunt pheasants, quail or partridge� Adults accompanying youths during
the Oct� 19-20 season may hunt pheasants only on the following wildlife management areas where a special
hunt is declared and posted:
Oak Valley Wilkinson Sherman Reservoir Cornhusker Peru Bottoms
Pressey Branched Oak Yankee Hill Twin Oaks Hickory Ridge
Kirkpatrick Basin
North
Rakes Creek Arrowhead George Syas Powder Creek
The bag limit for the accompanying adults is one rooster pheasant, and the bag limit for youth is two roosters�
All other youth and regular season regulations will be in effect� Adults accompanying youth elsewhere may
not hunt� Only one adult mentor per youth will be allowed to hunt� Visit OutdoorNebraska.org for more
information�
Remarks – Youth must be age 15 or younger; resident youths age 15 and younger do not need a permit,
but nonresident youths must have a nonresident youth hunt permit and habitat stamp; birds taken during
the youth season do not count against the youth's possession limit during the general hunting seasons�
See page 44 for Hunter Education requirements�
COYOTES, PRAIRIE DOGS AND OTHER NONGAME
Residents do not need a permit to hunt these species; but nonresidents must have a hunt (small game) permit�
A Habitat Stamp is not required� They may be hunted statewide, year-round, with no bag or possession limits:
Coyote Porcupine Prairie dog Woodchuck
PROTECTED MAMMALS
HUNTER SURVEY
At the end of each season, hunters who
provided email addresses at the time they
purchased their permits may receive an
email survey that is used to determine
hunter success and total harvest� It is
important when buying permits online
that hunters use an updated email
address� Hunters who have not provided
an email address can take the survey at
OutdoorNebraska.org� Survey results
are posted at OutdoorNebraska.org�
Black-footed ferret
Bear
Moose
River otter
Swift fox
Spotted skunk
Canada lynx
Gray wolf
Southern flying squirrel
