Indiana

Northern bobwhite quail hunting is zoned at Interstate 74, with the North Zone season running from early November through mid-December and the South Zone staying open into early January. The state's own species account names southeastern and southwestern Indiana, specifically Greene, Daviess, Knox, and Sullivan counties in the southwest, as holding the best quail populations, while ruling out south-central Indiana as too heavily wooded and central Indiana as too intensely farmed; the northern third of the state has always been marginal range because of harsh winters. Indiana's own network of Gamebird Habitat Areas managed for quail sits entirely in five northwestern counties, Benton, Newton, Jasper, Warren, and White, outside both of the species' own named strongholds in the southeast and southwest.

Ring-necked pheasant is regulated statewide, cocks only, with a general season running from early November through mid-December; hens are illegal in the wild but may be taken during separate put-and-take hunts on stocked birds. Wild populations are limited but stable specifically in northwestern Indiana, anchored by Willow Slough Fish and Wildlife Area in Newton County; the severe winter of 1978 wiped out pheasant and quail populations across northern Indiana, and pheasant has never rebounded outside pockets like Willow Slough. That same five-county Gamebird Habitat Area cluster, Benton, Newton, Jasper, Warren, and White, lines up with where the wild pheasant population actually is.