| Window | Dates | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Window 1 | 05 SEP – 04 OCT 2026 | 30d |
| Window 2 | 24 OCT – 22 NOV 2026 | 30d |
| Window 3 | 26 DEC 2026 – 24 JAN 2027 | 30d |
As publishedSept 5-Oct 4, 2026; Oct 24-Nov 22, 2026; Dec 26, 2026-Jan 24, 2027
Statewide North and South zones share identical dates (no zone split, unlike some neighboring states). Bag limit is combined singly-or-in-aggregate with white-winged dove. MDWFP's own Dove program page states explicit years for all three split segments.
MDWFP publishes no regional density map or forecast for mourning dove. Its North and South hunting zones share identical season dates, so the zone line carries no regional signal of its own. The strongest available sub-state distinction instead comes from an independent peer-reviewed study of Mississippi's own federal call-count routes: A 2007 Journal of Wildlife Management study by Elmore, Vilella, and Gerard, "Landscape correlates along mourning dove call-count routes in Mississippi," sampled routes across four Mississippi physiographic provinces (Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Deep Loess Province, Mid Coastal Plain, Hilly Coastal Plain) and found percent agriculture positively correlated with relative dove abundance, with the state's ongoing conversion of cropland to pine plantation implicated in localized declines. This is a land-use/trend correlate, not a current-year density map.
Mississippi dove numbers are down over the last decade, at -4.35% per year from 2016 to 2025 on the federal survey. The long-term record points the same way but far more gently, at -0.87% per year across 59 years, so the recent decade is the steeper part of a long decline. These figures run through 2025, one season behind this fall.
Recent decade down 4.35% per year, steepening a long-term decline.
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