This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
New Hampshire does not open a mourning dove season.Dove does not appear anywhere in NHFG's official 2026-27 FINAL migratory bird season document (which lists ducks, mergansers, coots, sea ducks, Canada/snow geese, brant, woodcock, snipe, and crow) nor in eRegulations' NH waterfowl/migratory regulations page. This is a standing NH policy choice, not a species-absence issue -- mourning doves do occur in NH. Federal frameworks would permit a state season if NH chose to open one, same as every other state in this non-hunting cohort (CT, MA, ME, MI, NJ, NY, VT) -- that possibility doesn't distinguish NH from them, so this is classified not_regulated to match.
New Hampshire runs no dove hunting season at all (a standing state policy choice), but the species does occur in the state and the regional-hotspot question still has a real, sourced answer independent of huntability. NH Audubon's own account (drawing on the Atlas of Breeding Birds of New Hampshire) describes a genuine north/south colonization and range-limit pattern rather than a uniform statewide distribution.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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