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2002-2003
MIGRATORY GAME BIRD AND CROW HUNTING SEASONS
Migratory Bird, September
Waterfowl, and Crow Brochure
Waterfowl and Coot Brochure
Season: September 1 - November 9
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limits (daily/possession):
Clapper & King rails - 15/30 (singly or in aggregate)
Sora & Virginia rails - 25/25 (singly or in aggregate)
Common Moorhen - 15/30
Purple Gallinule - NO OPEN SEASON
Season: September 21-25
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Legal to Take: Wood Duck, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 4/8. The 4-duck daily bag limit shall
consist of no more than two wood ducks.
Season:
First Phase - November 23-December 1
Second Phase - December 7-January 26
Canvasback Season: Closed
Pintail Season: November 23-December 1 and December 7-27
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit (daily/possession):
Ducks -- 6/12. The 6-duck daily limit shall consist of no more than
4 mallards (2 hens); 3 scaup; 1 black duck; 1 pintail, only during pintail
season; 1 mottled duck; 1 fulvous whistling duck; 2 wood ducks; 2 redheads;
and 4 scoters. All other species of duck (except harlequin ducks) may
be taken up to the six-duck daily limit.
Taking or attempting to take harlequin ducks or canvasback, is prohibited.
Taking or attempting to take pintails, except during the pintail season,
is prohibited.
Coots -- 15/30
Mergansers -- 5/10 (including no more than 1/2 hooded mergansers).
In Leon County and Lake Miccosukee in Leon and Jefferson counties, waterfowl
hunting is permitted on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays during the
open season and on November 28-29, December 24, December 26, December
31, January 2, and January 20. Lake Talquin in Gadsden and Leon counties
and the Ochlockonee River are open to hunting every day during the regular
waterfowl season.
During the open season, waterfowl hunting is permitted only on Wednesdays,
Saturdays and Sundays in the state waters of the Gulf of Mexico in Hernando
County north of Raccoon Point and east of Saddle Key as designated by
posted signs.
September Season: September 21-25
Regular Season: November 23 - January 30
Canada geese may be taken only in the Florida waters of Lake Seminole
in Jackson County that are south of SR 2, north of the Jim Woodruff
Dam and east of SR 271.
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 5/10 · Taking or attempting to take brant
or geese (except as described above) is prohibited.
(Light geese include snow geese - both blue and white phases - and
Ross' geese.)
Season: First Phase - November 23-December 1
Second Phase - December 7-January 26
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 15/none Taking or attempting to take brant
or geese (except as described above) is prohibited.
Children under 16 years of age may hunt. A non-hunting adult must accompany
children.
Season: February 1-2
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Bag Limits: Daily and possession limits and geographic restrictions
are the same as those for regular Duck and Coot, Limited Light Goose,
Limited Canada Goose, and Common Moorhen seasons (The daily bag limit
on common moorhens is 15, and the possession limit is 30) Note: Taking
or attempting to take brants or geese, except as noted above under "Limited
Canada Goose Hunting," "Limited Light Goose Season" and "Youth Waterfowl
Hunting Days," is prohibited.
Season:
First Phase - October 5-28
Second Phase - November 16-December 1
Third Phase - December 14 - January 12
Shooting Hours:
First Phase - 12 Noon to sunset
Second & Third phases - One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 12/24 (including no more than 4/8 white-winged
doves)
Season: November 1 - February 15
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 8/16
Season: December 21 - January 19
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit (daily/possession): 3/6
Season: November 9 - January 19.
May 10 - November 2 (Saturdays and Sundays only)
Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag Limit: No bag or possession limits.
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