YOUTH PHEASANT, QUAIL AND PARTRIDGE
Season dates – Oct� 22 - 23, 2022
Youth hunter daily bag/possession limits – 2/4 rooster pheasants, 2/4 quail, 2/4 partridge
Remarks – Only youth (age 15 or younger) are allowed to hunt during the youth season� Also:
• Only rooster pheasants may be harvested�
• Quail must be shot while in flight�
• Resident youths age 15 and younger do not need a permit, but nonresident youths must have a
nonresident youth hunt permit and habitat stamp�
Webless Migratory Birds
Shooting Hours – 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset (except crow)
Plugged Shotguns – It is unlawful to hunt dove, snipe, rail and woodcock with a shotgun capable of
holding more than three shells in the magazine and chamber unless it is plugged�
Open Area – statewide, but no hunting on all state refuges and sanctuaries
DOVE (Includes mourning, white-winged and Eurasian collared-doves)
Season dates – Sept� 1 – Oct� 30, 2022
Daily bag/possession limits – 15/45 in aggregate
Remarks – During the regular dove season, harvest of Eurasian collared-doves counts toward aggregate
daily bag and possession limits� Doves must be shot while in flight� HIP number required�
Banding – Report U�S� Fish and Wildlife Service leg bands recovered from birds at ReportBand�gov�
Wing study – Randomly selected hunters will be asked to save one wing from each dove during the first
week of the season and mail the wings (postage free) to the U�S� Fish and Wildlife Service� Data from the
wings will be used to estimate annual productivity of the dove population and eventually used in helping to
establish hunting regulations�
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE (Does not include mourning and white-winged doves)
Season dates – Oct� 31, 2022 – Aug� 31, 2023
Daily bag/possession limits – 15/45
Remarks – Eurasian collared-doves may be hunted year-round; during the regular dove season, harvest of
Eurasian collared-doves counts toward aggregate daily bag and possession limits� Small game license and
habitat stamp required� HIP number NOT required�
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