Waterfowl
Find information here about hunting ducks, geese, and coots.
| Season | Dates | Hours | Limits/Notes |
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| Teal: Hunting | - | Sunrise to sunset |
Daily bag limit: 6 Possession limit: 18 Limits are a combined total of all teal species. You may hunt blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, and cinnamon teal. Northern shoveler, northern pintail, and wood ducks have similarly colored plumage but are illegal to hunt during this season. |
| Early Canada Goose and Brant: Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Daily limit: 3 Daily and possession limits are brant and Canada geese combined. |
| Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: Middle Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the middle zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
| Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: North Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the north zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
| Ducks and Coots Hunting: Middle Zone |
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One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
| Ducks and Coots Hunting: North Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
| Goose (Canada, Brant, White-Fronted, Snow, Ross's): Hunting | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Canada geese and brant Daily limit: 3 Combined total of both species White-fronted geese Daily limit: 2 Light geese Daily limit: 20 Combined snow, blue, and Ross's geese. |
| Ducks, Coots, and Geese Hunting: Youth: South Zone | - | One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. See the zone boundary map for areas in the south zone. Youth hunters must be age 15 or younger and accompanied by an adult 18 years old or older who is not allowed to hunt ducks but who can participate in other open seasons. |
| Ducks and Coots Hunting: South Zone |
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One-half hour before sunrise to sunset |
Ducks: Daily limit of 6 with species restrictions below, possession limit of 18 Coots: Daily limit of 15, possession limit of 45. |
| Light Goose Conservation Order | - | One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset |
None Hunting is limited to snow geese, blue geese, and Ross's geese. |
| Ducks, Coots, and Mergansers: Falconry | - | Sunrise to sunset during the September teal season, one-half hour before sunrise to sunset during the remaining seasons. |
Daily limit: 3 birds, combined total of doves, ducks, and coots. Season is also open during the regular duck-hunting seasons, including teal and youth waterfowl seasons. |