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PRAIRIE GROUSE (Includes greater prairie-chicken and sharp-tailed grouse)
East Zone season dates – Sept. 1, 2025 – Jan. 31, 2026
Daily bag/possession limits – 3/3 in aggregate
Open area – east of U.S. Highway 81
Special grouse permits – Required, along with a hunting permit, for hunting prairie grouse
east of U.S. Highway 81; also:
• Requests are accepted at the Game and Parks headquarters in Lincoln starting July 15.
• They are free of charge, limited in number to 400 and limited to one per hunter.
• They are available on a first-come basis.
• Requests are accepted by phone at 402-471-5410, email at ngpc.eastzonegrouse@
nebraska.gov, over the counter or by mail.
West Zone season dates – Sept. 1, 2025 – Jan. 31, 2026
Daily bag/possession limits – 3/12 in aggregate
Open area – west of U.S. Highway 81
Remarks – No special permit required.
PARTRIDGE (Includes Hungarian/gray
and chukar partridges)
Season dates – Oct. 25, 2025 – Jan.
31, 2026
Daily bag/possession limits – 3/12 in
aggregate
YOUTH PHEASANT, QUAIL
AND PARTRIDGE
Season dates – Oct. 18 - 19, 2025
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.
WHAT IS AGGREGATE?
• Aggregate daily bag limit is the maximum
number allowed to be harvested by a person
in one day during an open season when that
person hunts for more than one species for
which there is a combined daily bag limit. It
is equal to, but shall not exceed, the largest
daily bag limit specified for any one species.
• Aggregate possession limit is the maximum
number of a single species or combination
of species allowed to be possessed by a
person. It is equal to, but shall not exceed,
the largest possession limit specified for any
one of the species.
