Virginia

Northern bobwhite quail's strongest population sits in the Piedmont, by far the largest habitat base for the state's quail-restoration effort, with a second, smaller population in the Coastal Plain and Tidewater, where the state's active restoration project centers on Flippo-Gentry Wildlife Management Area in Sussex County. The population west of the Blue Ridge Mountains is thin enough that the public-land season there is closed entirely. Ruffed grouse is essentially confined to the mountainous western third of the state, the season itself closed everywhere east of Interstate 95 because habitat doesn't really exist there; within that western range, the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest is the primary managed grouse landscape, and birds flush more often on private land than on public land there.

Virginia's ring-necked pheasant season exists almost entirely to govern licensed private shooting preserves releasing pen-raised birds rather than any wild population; genuinely wild pheasants are scarce statewide, and because preserves are individually licensed and scattered by landowner choice rather than concentrated in any particular habitat region, there is no meaningful regional pattern to the hunting.