As publishedNov 7, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027
Official MD DNR 2026-2027 Hunting Seasons Calendar (primary, verbatim pdftotext extraction) confirms these dates. Bag limit, possession limit, and the 'either sex' detail are sourced from eRegulations (SECONDARY aggregator, not MD-DNR-hosted) — the season-date ranges it gives match the primary calendar exactly, which corroborates it, but the bag/sex detail itself has no MD-DNR-primary confirmation found this pass. Sunday hunting is permitted in certain counties per the calendar's Sunday Small Game Hunting table.
Confirmed absence of survey infrastructure: a fresh 2026-08-19 check found no DNR-published pre-season forecast for the small, declining wild population (Carroll, Baltimore, Frederick, Washington Counties). DNR's separate mentored-hunt stocking program (since 2018) is a put-and-take supplement, not a survey of the wild population.