As publishedStandard: Oct 17-31, 2026. Extended (select areas only): Jan 1-Feb 28, 2026 and Oct 17-Dec 31, 2026
Not a self-sustaining wild population in CT; put-and-take stocked.Standard season Oct 17-31. Extended season (matching pheasant dates) applies only at Nod Brook WMA and the Flaherty, Mansfield, and Sugarbrook Field Trial Areas. CT Resident Game Bird Conservation Stamp required.
Confirmed absence: DEEP's own fact sheet states native Connecticut bobwhite have 'probably been extirpated'; modern quail hunting relies exclusively on pen-raised release birds, so no wild-population survey exists.