Washington · MigratoryMourning dove

Mourning dove is huntable statewide in Washington but concentrated heavily in the irrigated agricultural counties of the Columbia Basin and lower Yakima Valley, where grain fields, water, and open ground concentrate birds. WDFW's 2025 harvest data shows an unusually sharp gradient: Grant County alone produced 10,812 of the state's 27,508 birds (39% of the entire statewide harvest, from 573 of 1,828 hunters), followed by Yakima (6,198), Franklin (2,645), Benton (2,847), Adams (1,633), and Douglas (517) -- all Columbia Basin / Yakima Valley irrigated-agriculture counties. Walla Walla (545), Lincoln (317), Whitman (225), and Okanogan (305) counties contribute smaller but still meaningful harvests from the same general agricultural-interior footprint. Western Washington counties are uniformly minor by comparison (e.g. Clark 216, Snohomish 200, Thurston 57), consistent with the species' preference for open, dry agricultural ground over the wetter west side.