| Window | Dates | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Season | 23 NOV 2026 – 28 FEB 2027 | 98d |
As publishedNov 23, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027 (same as pheasant, per statute)
Delaware's codified regulation (7 Del.Admin. Code 3900-4.20) treats chukar's season as identical to pheasant's, though chukar isn't listed as its own line item in the printed guide's species table. No chukar-specific bag or possession limit is published for 2026-27. DNREC describes chukar as a domestically-raised, permit-released gamebird, not a wild population: a statutory season sitting over a permit-release/preserve-only bird, not a stocked-and-huntable wild one.
No wild chukar population exists in Delaware to regionalize. Chukar release into the wild requires a Delaware Gamebird Breeders Permit or a free possession/release permit (7 Del. Admin. Code 3900), a private-party, county-declared-at-application process, not a DNREC-run public stocking program with a defined geography (unlike ring-necked pheasant, which DNREC itself stocks onto named public wildlife areas). Permit applicants declare only a county (New Castle, Kent, or Sussex) and wildlife management zone at the time of release, and no aggregate, publicly reported geography of where those releases actually cluster exists.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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