| Window | Dates | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Season | 26 NOV 2026 – 07 MAR 2027 | 102d |
As publishedNov 26, 2026 - Mar 7, 2027
No stated zones; MDWFP's own Quail program page states the full years explicitly.
MDWFP publishes no regional density map, no zone system, and runs no restocking program for bobwhite quail — its own Quail Program page states only a statewide finding ("Bobwhite quail populations have declined substantially in Mississippi during the last 50 years... over 70 percent" since the early 1970s peak) with no county or regional breakdown. The one confirmed active monitoring effort, a June call-count survey run jointly by MDWFP and Mississippi State University, is deliberately spread across WMAs in different parts of the state (Black Prairie WMA in the northeast Black Prairie region, Divide Section WMA in the west-central Delta/hills transition, Copiah County WMA in the southwest, Marion County WMA in the south, Charles Ray Nix WMA in south-central Mississippi, and Theodore A. Mars, Jr. WMA in the southeast) rather than concentrated in one part of the state — this scatter is itself evidence against a single named hotspot, not a case where regional detail simply wasn't found. Closed uniform-statewide: no real, checked, sub-state concentration claim exists in the available sourcing.
MDWFP's own 2026 breeding-season call counts on its quail-managed WMAs read flat: some areas are up and some down, with no clear statewide move from 2025. On the typically better WMAs, counts ran about 0.7 to 1.6 calling males per listening station. The agency cautions that rainy weather during the June survey window made both 2025 and 2026 hard to count, but adds that by fall there have been "good reports of quail brood observations suggesting another decent hatch during 2026." Conditions were mostly favorable: a mild winter apart from a late-January ice storm across about a third of the state (radio-marked birds in one hard-hit area all survived), a bumper acorn crop, then one of the driest springs the agency's biologist can recall, rescued by abundant rain from late May into early summer. Best public bets are WMAs and National Forests in the Southwest, South Central, and Southeast WMA regions, plus Charles Ray Nix WMA in northwest Mississippi, managed with some emphasis on quail habitat. The agency's own advice: keep public-land expectations modest.
Flat breeding-season call counts on MDWFP's quail-managed WMAs, with good fall brood reports suggesting another decent hatch.
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