This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Not listed in the official 2026-27 season PDF, MDIFW's dedicated migratory game birds page, or the season-dates-bag-limits landing page. The species occurs in Maine biologically, but the state has not opted to open a hunting season for it.
Maine runs no dove hunting season, per the official season PDF and migratory-game-bird pages, despite the species occurring biologically in the state; a structural non-game classification rather than a data gap (mourning dove is not among the three families, Anatidae/Rallidae/Scolopacidae plus Scolopacidae-adjacent woodcock/snipe, Maine recognizes as huntable migratory game). The Maine Bird Atlas (2018-2022, MDIFW's own community-science project) and independent sourcing both describe the species as common in suburban zones and agricultural/lightly-wooded habitat across the southern half of the state specifically, with a documented range expansion northward and eastward since the 1950s. This is a species-range claim, not a hunting-density claim; there is no harvest or survey program to derive density from.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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