This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Legal game bird (listed as 'California Valley Quail' in exhibits), bag combined with Gambel's and Japanese quail. 2026-27 DOFAW season announcement not yet published as of 2026-08-18. 2025-26 reference: Nov 1, 2025 - Jan 25, 2026, weekends + state holidays (Wed/Thu also open on Hawai'i Island Units A/G/PTA and private land statewide). This is also the species depicted on the 2026-2027 Hawaii Game Bird Stamp (contest winner announced April 2026). Re-checked live 2026-08-18 (barred-dove check covers the whole state, since DOFAW issues one combined game-bird season announcement for all species): still not published. DOFAW's last 5 years of announcements all came out in October, so this isn't overdue yet — re-check in/after October 2026 rather than re-researching each species separately before then. Re-checked 2026-08-19: still not published (dlnr.hawaii.gov direct WebFetch blocked by this environment's egress policy tonight; WebSearch found no 2026-27 combined announcement -- only the 2025-26 archive and unrelated turkey/stamp releases turned up; one search result surfaced specific-looking 2026-27 dates with no dated primary source behind them, treated as unverified/unusable per no-fabrication rule). Re-checked 2026-08-20: still not published (dlnr.hawaii.gov, WebSearch-surfaced third-party mirrors, and direct WebFetch all blocked/unavailable via this environment's egress policy tonight, same as 2026-08-19; WebSearch found no 2026-27 combined game-bird announcement -- only the 2025-26 archive, unrelated turkey-season and stamp-contest releases turned up; still consistent with DOFAW's October-publication pattern, not overdue).
Researched independently from the separate, plan-3-tracked season-announcement blocker (a distinct concern: hunting dates/regs, not population monitoring). No DOFAW population-survey/forecast program of any kind was found for California quail: no lek/crow/whistle-count survey, no pre-season forecast narrative. DOFAW's game-bird management model here is structurally different from mainland states -- self-sustaining wild populations plus GMA-specific stocking targets set at Game Management Advisory Commission (GMAC) meetings, not a population census. Checked: GMAC meeting minutes/agendas, DLNR legislative reports to the Hawaii Legislature (FY22 edition read in full -- purely administrative, no bird population data), DLNR news search, and general web search; the only population-data infrastructure found is retrospective Pittman-Robertson harvest-by-GMA reporting (since 1946, compiled for federal excise-tax accounting, not a public-facing pre-season outlook, and not confirmed current past a 2008-era academic compilation).