As publishedYouth: Oct 24-25, 2026; Regular: Nov 1, 2026 - Jan 15, 2027
Roosters only.A foot or fully-feathered head must be left attached during transportation and storage. Youth season open to ages 6-15.
Same combined Quail and Pheasant Roadside Survey as bobwhite quail. The 2025 edition is already out (0.25 pheasants/route, up 14% vs. 2024) but that's last year's data; 2026 fieldwork has just closed, report expected ~October 2026. Note: the Tier A registry flagged the pheasant-reports listing page as lagging behind the quail-reports page in publishing each edition — a page-maintenance quirk to recheck when the 2026 report is due, not itself a data gap.