This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Wild bobwhite quail season is closed statewide in NJ with no exceptions outside a small set of preserves grandfathered from 2009-10. The only huntable quail are stocked birds, restricted to Peaslee WMA and Greenwood Forest WMA ONLY. 2026-27 stocked-hunt dates not yet published as of 2026-08-18. Reference only, NOT this year's dates: 2025-26 stocked-quail season was Nov. 8, 2025 (8 a.m.)–Jan. 31, 2026, closed Dec. 8–13 & 17, 2025, 4 quail/day. Re-checked 2026-08-18 (barred-dove-style batch check for the state, since all of NJ's stocked upland species share one regs digest/table): still not published, and the original check already probed the 2026-27 digest URL directly (HTTP 404), not a paraphrase-miss, so no new fetch dispatched. Re-check once NJDEP posts a new digest edition. Re-checked 2026-08-19: still not published (dep.nj.gov direct WebFetch blocked by this environment's egress policy tonight; WebSearch found only 2025-26 digest files, no 2026-2027 digest or segment PDF, and the 2026-2027 page that does exist is the separate Migratory Game Bird Population Status page, not the upland regs digest). Re-checked 2026-08-20: still not published (dep.nj.gov and eregulations.com direct WebFetch both blocked via this environment's egress policy tonight, same as 2026-08-19; WebSearch found only 2025-26 digest/regs files and the unrelated Migratory Game Bird Population Status page, no 2026-2027 upland regs digest or segment PDF).
Two active research efforts confirmed -- an NJDFW/University of Delaware cooperative decline study in Cumberland County (documenting ~30%/year population decline vs. a 44% national rate) and a separate NJ Audubon/Tall Timbers/University of Delaware Pine Barrens reintroduction/translocation project (Burlington County, Georgia-sourced wild birds, since 2015) -- but neither is a NJDFW-published, annual, hunter-facing forecast; both are academic-style research/restoration collaborations, echoing Georgia's ruffed-grouse and Delaware's bobwhite patterns already documented in this registry. Wild season closed statewide except stocked-only hunts at Peaslee and Greenwood Forest WMAs. Active monitoring with no discrete dated 2026 report -- not_yet_published rather than no_program, since real, ongoing research programs are confirmed to exist.