As publishedDec 18, 2026 - Jan 31, 2027
Single statewide season, no zones.No dedicated MDWFP species-program page for woodcock; administered via the seasons/bag-limits table only. HIP required as a nationwide federal requirement for migratory game bird hunters, though not separately restated on the woodcock row itself.
No MS-specific program; Mississippi sits in wintering, not breeding, range for woodcock, which structurally puts it outside the federal Singing-Ground Survey's spring route network — mirroring Louisiana's already-documented structural gap in this registry. Per the same judgment call already made for Louisiana in a prior Tier B batch: the federal USFWS Population Status report combines three instruments (SGS, Parts Collection, HIP Diary Survey), and the latter two draw on wintering-ground harvest data regardless of local SGS route density, with MS sitting within the report's regional management framework either way — so the federal report is treated as the governing source (not_yet_published) rather than no_program, applied here for consistency. It has not published a 2026 edition as of 2026-08-19 (confirmed via direct fetch and search: no 2026 edition on FWS's report-collection page).