As publishedOct. 31, 2026-Jan. 31, 2027
Must be shot while in flight.Regulated jointly with pheasant and partridge under one season window. Youth-only season Oct. 24-25, 2026.
Tracked via the same NGPC Upland Game Bird Hunting Outlook PDF as prairie-chicken (folding in April/July Rural Mail Carrier Surveys and the mid-June-mid-July bobwhite whistle-count survey). A fresh check this pass caught a stale-attribution trap: a WebSearch summary and a syndicated Outdoor Wire mirror of NGPC's press release both initially read as describing the current 2026 season, but a direct fetch of the Outdoor Wire release confirmed its actual publish date is August 26, 2025, describing the 2025-26 season (comparing spring/summer 2025 survey results to 2024) — not a 2026 finding. outdoornebraska.gov itself returns HTTP 403 to every direct fetch attempt. No genuine 2026 edition found; expected late August 2026 (within about a week) per the 2025 precedent (Aug 26, 2025 publish date).