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The Missouri Conservation Commission approved recommendations at its April 8 meeting from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) for upcoming 2020 migratory-game-bird-hunting seasons and 2020-2021 waterfowl-hunting seasons.
Dove season kicks off fall migratory game bird seasons and will run Sept. 1 through Nov. 29. Teal duck hunting kicks of the 2020-21 Waterfowl hunting season Sept 12-27.
YOUTH HUNTING DAYS
- North Zone: Oct. 24 and 25
- Middle Zone: Oct. 24 and 25
- South Zone: Nov. 21 and 22
MDC Sets 2020-21 Migratory Bird & Waterfowl Hunting Seasons
Submitted by: TBC Press
Posted on: 02/12/20
News # 13470
2020 MIGRATORY GAME BIRD HUNTING
Mourning Doves, Eurasian Collared Doves, and White-Winged Doves
- Season: Sept. 1 through Nov. 29
- Limits: 15 daily and 45 in possession combined total for all three species
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Sora and Virginia Rails
- Season: Sept. 1 through Nov. 9
- Limits: 25 daily and 75 in possession combined for both species
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Wilson's (Common) Snipe
- Season: Sept. 1 through Dec. 16
- Limits: 8 daily and 24 in possession
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
American Woodcock
- Season: Oct. 15 through Nov. 28
- Limits: 3 daily and 9 in possession
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
2020-2021 WATERFOWL HUNTING
Teal
- Season: Sept. 12-27
- Limits: 6 daily and 18 in possession
- Hours: Sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit: 6 ducks daily with species restrictions of:
- 4 mallards (no more than 2 females)
- New: 2 scaup for first 45 days and 1 scaup for last 15 days
- 3 wood ducks
- 2 redheads
- 2 hooded mergansers
- 1 pintail
- 2 canvasbacks
- 2 black ducks
- 1 mottled duck
Possession Limit: Three times the daily bag or 18 total, varies by species
Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Coots
- Season: Same as duck season dates in the respective zones
- Limits: 15 daily and 45 in possession
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Snow Geese (White and Blue Phases) and Ross's Geese
- Season: Nov. 11 through Feb. 6, 2021
- Limits: 20 blue, snow, or Ross's geese daily with no possession limit
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
White-Fronted Geese
- Season: Nov. 11 through Feb. 6, 2021
- Limits: 2 daily and 6 in possession
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Canada Geese and Brant
- Season: Oct. 3-11 and Nov. 11 – Feb. 6, 2021
- Limits: 3 Canada geese and Brant in aggregate daily, 9 in possession
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Light Goose Conservation Order
- Season: Feb. 7, 2021, through April 30, 2021
- Limits: No daily or possession limits
- Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset
Requirements: Persons must possess a Conservation Order permit to participate in the Conservation Order. An exception to the permit requirement includes any person 15 years of age or younger provided either she or he is in the immediate presence of a properly permitted adult hunter 18 years of age or older with hunter-education certification or who is exempt.
Methods: For the taking of blue, snow and Ross's geese, hunters may use shotguns capable of holding more than three shells and recorded or electronically amplified bird calls or sounds or imitations of bird calls or sounds.
For more information see; on migratory-bird and waterfowl hunting, visit MDC online at huntfish.mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species and select the specific species, or get MDC’s 2020-2021 Migratory Bird and Waterfowl Hunting Digest, available beginning in July where hunting permits are sold.
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Ducks Season:
- North Zone: Nov. 7 through Jan. 5, 2021
- Middle Zone: Nov. 7 - 13 and Nov. 19 through Jan. 10, 2021
- South Zone: Nov. 26 - 29 and Dec. 7 through Jan. 31, 2021
