| Window | Dates | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Season | 07 NOV 2026 – 31 JAN 2027 | 86d |
As publishedNov 7, 2026 - Jan 31, 2027
No daily or seasonal bag limit; no gender (rooster/hen) restriction stated in the official regulation. Likely a low-priority/put-and-take season rather than a wild self-sustaining population, but DWR's own materials do not explicitly say so.
Virginia's ring-necked pheasant regulation exists solely to govern licensed private shooting preserves and permit-holder land releasing pen-raised birds (pen-raised birds may be taken on licensed preserves Sept 1-Apr 30 with no bag limit), not a wild, self-sustaining population. DWR's own shooting-preserves page confirms preserves are privately licensed and distributed statewide by individual landowner/operator choice rather than concentrated in any one habitat region. There is no DWR-published preserve location map or density signal, and truly wild pheasants are scarce in Virginia, with essentially all hunting occurring on these commercial/private preserves. A real regulatory framework exists, but it produces no sub-state pattern to map because release sites are private, licensed individually, and not geographically clustered by any published agency criterion.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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