Virginia · MigratoryMourning dove

DWR's own Dove page and its most recent Dove Hunting Forecast contain no regional distribution or density statement. The forecast's only geographic language is that conditions varied around the state for habitat/crop timing and that good numbers of young doves were banded throughout the state, with no per-region breakdown. DWR's Managed Dove Fields program itself, rather than pointing toward a natural concentration, spans essentially every landscape type in the state. The current WMA list includes Coastal Plain/Tidewater sites (Chickahominy, Cavalier, Ware Creek), Piedmont sites (Amelia, Featherfin, Powhatan, C.F. Phelps), and western-mountain sites (Clinch Mountain, Highland, Little North Mountain, Hidden Valley, Gathright, Goshen) alike, suggesting the program is built for statewide public-hunting access rather than concentrated on the species' best habitat. So an active in-house field and hunting program exists, but neither it nor the species' own agency page states a sub-state concentration, despite dove favoring agricultural open land that is not evenly distributed across Virginia's coastal-to-mountain gradient.