| Window | Dates | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Season | 17 OCT – 31 OCT 2026 | 15d |
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.
Connecticut's native wild bobwhite has, per DEEP's own fact sheet, “probably been extirpated” — modern quail hunting is entirely put-and-take, pen-raised release birds. DEEP names the specific public sites where the extended-season release program operates: Nod Brook WMA plus the Flaherty, Mansfield, and Sugarbrook Field Trial Areas (extended season, matching pheasant dates); everywhere else in the state runs only the short standard season (Oct 17-31) on whatever birds are released for that window. This is a real, agency-named release-site geography, not a population-density claim — worded accordingly.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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