Indiana · MigratoryMourning dove

IDNR runs a single statewide dove season with no zone system, but publishes a real, concrete access-geography signal rather than a density map: its network of 33 Gamebird Habitat Areas (GBAs), concentrated in five northwest Indiana counties (Benton, Newton, Jasper, Warren, White), is explicitly managed for mourning dove alongside pheasant and quail, and DNR's own dove-draw program allocates managed sunflower dove fields on these and other DNR properties. Independent hunting-press sourcing estimates that over one-third of all doves harvested in Indiana are taken from DNR-owned properties, and names additional managed dove-field anchors spread more broadly than the GBA cluster — Jasper-Pulaski FWA (also northwest Indiana), Glendale FWA (southern Indiana, Daviess County), and Pigeon River FWA (far northeastern Indiana). This is an access/habitat-investment claim, not a population-density claim — IDNR does not publish a regional dove abundance breakdown — but it is a real, agency-drawn geography of where public dove hunting is concentrated.