As publishedOct 1–Feb 28 (Orange County); Nov 1–Dec 31 (Putnam/Nassau/Suffolk counties, Long Island); Closed elsewhere in NY
Only open in Orange County (upstate) and Putnam/Nassau/Suffolk counties (Long Island); closed statewide elsewhere in New York.
NY's one wild, self-sustaining bobwhite population is confined to Long Island (Suffolk County), backed by a long-running call-count survey (since 1979) documented in DEC's own Species Status Assessment -- from an average of ~101 calling males/year in the 1980s down to ~41 more recently, a steep decline paralleling Georgia's and Kentucky's already-documented bobwhite findings in this registry. The underlying SSA PDF remains binary/uncompressible via this session's fetch tooling (re-confirmed this pass); current 2026 cadence not independently confirmed -- active, real, long-running program with no discrete dated 2026 report found, not a program lapse.