Winter Season Offers Multiple Opportunities for Texas Bird Hunters
AUSTIN — While winter in Texas is often synonymous with spending dawn and dusk in a deer blind, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) wants to remind hunters of the various upland and migratory bird hunting seasons that are still open throughout the colder months.
Hunters can take part in several seasons for a range of species including dove, quail, duck, turkey and Sandhill Cranes. The winter months are also a good time to take part in lesser-utilized seasons, hunting for species like woodcock, rails, gallinules and chachalacas.
A few of the winter bird hunting season dates are as follows:
- Second segment of the statewide dove season;
- North Zone – Dec. 18, 2020 – Jan. 3, 2021
- Central Zone – Dec. 18, 2020 – Jan. 14, 2021
- South Zone – Dec. 18, 2020 – Jan. 23, 2021
- Quail;
- Statewide through Feb. 28, 2021
- Regular duck season and “Dusky” duck;
- High Plains Mallard Unit and North Zone open through Jan. 31, 2021
- South Zone – Dec. 12, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021
- Turkey (Fall Season);
- North Zone – Open through Jan. 3, 2021
- South Zone – Open through Jan. 17, 2021
- Brooks, Kenedy, Kleberg and Willacy Counties – Open through Feb. 28, 2021
- Sandhill Cranes;
- Zone A – Open through Jan. 31, 2021
- Zone B – Open through Jan. 31, 2021
- Zone C – Dec. 19, 2020 – Jan. 24, 2021
- Woodcock;
- Statewide Dec. 18, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021
- Rails, Gallinules and Moorhens;
- Open statewide through Dec. 30, 2020
- Chachalaca;
- Open through Feb. 28, 2021