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Georgia · MigratoryMourning dove

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Season 2026-27
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Season windows

WindowDatesDays
Window 105 SEP – 11 OCT 202637d
Window 221 NOV – 29 NOV 20269d
Window 319 DEC 2026 – 31 JAN 202744d

As publishedSept. 5–Oct. 11, 2026; Nov. 21–29, 2026; Dec. 19, 2026–Jan. 31, 2027

What you may take, and when

Take and hours

Bag limit
15 per day, 45 in possession

License and requirements

HIP required
Required
Exceptions posted at the boundary

Three-segment split season, statewide, no zones.Possession limit is 3x daily bag (45). Requires GA Waterfowl & Migratory Bird License (free for many license holders) which serves as GA's migratory-bird/HIP registration.

Where the birds are

Finding Mourning dove in Georgia

Range and concentration

WRD publishes no dove density map -- the season runs statewide with no zone split -- but does run a real, geographically organized public-access program: managed WMA/PFA/VPA dove fields spread across the state, organized under WRD's own numbered Game Management region system (six regions, per WRD's own published 'Numbered Region Map'), with an annual Dove Field Forecast rating each field's condition. Confirmed named fields in all six of WRD's regions: Region 1 (Northwest Georgia -- Berry College, Coosawattee, Crockford-Pigeon Mountain, J.L. Lester, Joe Kurz, McEntire, McGraw Ford, West Point), Region 2 (North Georgia -- Buck Shoals, Dawson Forest, Hart County, London Farms, Redlands, Wilson Shoals), Region 3 (East Central Georgia -- Alexander, B.F. Grant, Cedar Creek, Clarks Hill, Clybel, Di-Lane Plantation, Lower Broad River, McDuffie, Oconee, Perry Dove Field, Rum Creek, Walton, Yuchi), Region 4 (South Central Georgia -- Alapaha River, Appling County Dove Fields, Beaverdam, Canoochee Sandhills, Hiltonia, Ocmulgee-Gum Swamp, River Bend, Rogers State Prison Farm), Region 5 (Southwest Georgia -- Albany Nursery, Big Lazer Creek, Blanton Creek, Chattahoochee Fall Line, Chickasawhatchee, Elmodel, Featherfield, Flint River, Hannahatchee Creek, Mayhaw, River Creek, Silver Lake), and Region 6 (Southeast/Coastal Georgia -- Altamaha, Dixon Memorial, Paradise PFA, Paulks Pasture, Penholoway Swamp, Richmond Hill, Townsend). This is an access/habitat-management signal spanning the whole state rather than a claim about where wild dove density concentrates; corrected from an earlier draft that only captured four of the six regions and mislabeled Region 4.

Population outlook

Georgia 2026

Recorded 2026

The federal survey cannot say whether Georgia dove numbers are rising or falling. Its 2016 to 2025 estimate comes out at -0.25% per year, but the range around it runs from -1.22% to +0.73%, wide enough in both directions that no direction can be called. Read that as unknown, not as steady. The figures also run through 2025, one season behind this fall.

Issuing agencyGeorgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Divisiongeorgiawildlife.comRecord year 2026
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