Kentucky · MigratoryMourning dove

KDFWR runs a single statewide dove season with no zone system, but publishes a real access-geography signal through its managed public dove-field program (a Cooperative Dove Field Program plus a newer Voluntary Public Access Dove Fields program, both paying farmers to plant and manage fields for public dove hunting). The state's flagship managed WMA dove fields cluster heavily in far-western Kentucky -- Peabody WMA (Hopkins County), Sloughs WMA (Henderson/Union counties), Ballard WMA (Ballard County), and West Kentucky WMA -- the same West Kentucky region that KDFWR's own Rural Mail Carrier Survey independently identifies as the state's strongest bobwhite quail region, though the two programs are not formally linked. Additional cooperator dove fields are named in the Bluegrass region (Harley Thompson Road) and the southeastern part of the state (multiple fields along R.L. Gentry Road), giving public dove access a real presence outside the western cluster as well. This is an access/habitat-investment claim, not an agency-published density map -- KDFWR does not rank regions against each other for dove abundance specifically.