MIGRATORY GAME BIRD SCHEDULES

1 MIGRATORY BIRDS. MIGRATORY GAME bird SCHEDULES . Shooting & Hawking Hours 1. Ducks, Geese, Teal, Rail, Gallinule, Snipe and Woodcock: One-Half Hour before sunrise to sunset, EXCEPT. a. Shooting hours for Snipe at the Spanish Lake Recreation Area in Iberia Parish, including the Conservation Order, shall end at 2 b. Shooting hours for Waterfowl ends at 2:00 pm on all WMAs EXCEPT on Atchafalaya Delta, Biloxi, Lake Boeuf, Pass-a-Loutre, Pointe-aux-Chenes and Salvador/Timken WMAs. Consult individual WMA hunting SCHEDULES for shooting hours. 2. Mourning Dove: One-Half Hour before sunrise to sunset EXCEPT for opening day of the first split on WMAs and LDWF leased dove fields where shooting hours will be 12 (noon) to sunset, EXCEPT for Elbow Slough WMA, which will be open one- half hour before sunrise to sunset. 2017 - 2018 MIGRATORY GAME bird schedule . Species Season Dates Daily Bag Limit Possession Limit South Zone: Mourning and Sept. 2-10. White-winged Doves Oct. 7 - Nov. 26.

2 And fully-dressed Dec. 17 - Jan. 15 15 45. Eurasian Collared North Zone: in the aggregate in the aggregate and Ringed Turtle Sept. 2-24. Doves Oct. 7 - Nov. 12. Dec. 17 - Jan. 15. Woodcock Dec. 18 - Jan. 31 3 9. Teal (Blue-winged, Green-winged and Sept. 15-30 6 18. Cinnamon). King and Clapper Sept. 15-30 15 45. Rails Nov. 11 - Jan. 3 in the aggregate in the aggregate Sora and Virginia Sept. 15-30 25 75. Rails Nov. 11 - Jan. 3 in the aggregate in the aggregate Sept. 15-30. Gallinules 15 45. Nov. 11 - Jan. 3. Statewide: Snipe Nov. 2 - Dec. 3 8 24. Dec. 16 - Feb. 28. Coastal Zone: Ducks, Coots and Nov. 4-5 (Youth Only) See Ducks, Coots and Mergansers Mergansers Nov. 11 - Dec. 3 section for more details Dec. 16 - Jan. 21. 51. MIGRATORY BIRDS. 2017 - 2018 MIGRATORY GAME bird schedule . Species Season Dates Daily Bag Limit Possession Limit West Zone: Nov. 4 (Youth Only). Nov. 11 - Dec. 3. Dec. 16 - Jan. 21. Jan. 27 (Youth Only). Ducks, Coots and See Ducks, Coots and Mergansers Mergansers section for more details East Zone: Nov.

3 11 (Youth Only). Nov. 18 - Dec. 3. Dec. 16 - Jan. 28. Feb. 3 (Youth Only). Statewide: Canada Geese* Nov. 4 - Dec. 3 1 3. Dec. 16 - Jan. 31. Statewide: Light Geese (Snow, Nov. 4 - Dec. 3 20 None Blue and Ross'). Dec. 16 - Feb. 11. Statewide: White-fronted Nov. 4 - Dec. 3 2 6. Geese*. Dec. 16 - Feb. 11. Conservation Order Statewide: for Light Geese No bag or possession limit. See Dec. 4-15. (Snow, Blue and Geese section for more detail Feb. 12 - March 11. Ross'). Statewide: Falconry for Ducks Nov. 3 - Jan. 31. Falconry daily bag and possession Falconry for Rails and limit for all permitted MIGRATORY game Nov. 3 - Jan. 31. Gallinules birds must not exceed 3 and 9 birds Falconry for respectively, singly or in aggregate, Nov. 2 - Jan. 31 during the extended falconry seasons Woodcock and regular hunting seasons. Extended Falconry for Sept. 15 - Oct. 1. Mourning Doves GEESE. CONSERVATION ORDER FOR LIGHT Closed in the following area: GEESE Beginning at the Texas State Line, pro- Only snow, blue, and Ross's geese may be ceeding east along Hwy 82 to the taken under the terms of the Conservation Calcasieu Ship Channel, then north Order, which allows the use of electronic along the Calcasieu Ship Channel to its calls and unplugged shotguns and eliminates junction with the Intracoastal Canal, the daily bag and possession limits.

4 During then east along the Intracoastal Canal the Conservation Order, shooting hours to its juncture with LA Hwy 82, then begins one-half hour before sunrise and south along LA Hwy 82 to its juncture extends until one-half hour after sunset. with Parish Road 3147, then south and east along Parish Road 3147 to CANADA GOOSE SEASON Freshwater Bayou Canal, then south to The Canada Goose season is open state- the Gulf of Mexico, then west along wide EXCEPT for a portion of southwest the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana: 52 2017 - 2018 Louisiana hunting Regulations MIGRATORY BIRDS. the Texas State Line, then north to the point of beginning at LA Hwy 82. Open waters of Lake Arthur and the Mermentau River, from the Hwy 14 bridge southward, will also be closed to Canada goose hunting . DUCKS, COOTS AND MERGANSERS. YOUTH WATERFOWL hunting DAYS DAILY BAG LIMITS. Restricted to youths 17 or younger. Youths Ducks: The daily bag limit for ducks is must be accompanied by one adult 18 years 6 and may include no more than 4.

5 Of age or older. Youths must possess a mallards (no more than 2 of which hunter safety certification or proof of suc- may be females), 2 canvasback, 1 mot- cessful completion of a hunter safety course. tled duck, 1 black duck, 3 wood ducks, If the accompanying adult is in possession of 3 scaup, 2 redheads, and 1 pintail. hunter safety certification, a valid hunting Coots: The daily bag limit for coots is 15. license or proof of successful completion of Mergansers: The daily bag limit for a hunter safety course, this requirement is mergansers is 5; only 2 of which may waived for youths younger than 16 years of be hooded mergansers. Merganser age. Adults may not possess a firearm. limits are in addition to the daily bag Youths may possess only one legal firearm limit for ducks. while hunting . The supervising adult shall maintain visual and voice contact with the POSSESSION LIMIT. youth at all times, regardless of age. Youths The possession limit on ducks, coots and may take ducks, geese, mergansers, coots mergansers is three times the daily bag and gallinules on these days.

6 Bag limits are limit. the same as regular duck season. The adult may not hunt ducks on these days. WATERFOWL hunting ZONES. Creek; then north on Hwy 167 to Hodge; then north on Hwy 147 to Arcadia; then north on Hwy 9 to Homer; then north on Hwy 79 to the Arkansas border. East: That portion of the state between the Mississippi State line and the line going south on Hwy 79. from the Arkansas border to Homer;. then south on Hwy 9 to Arcadia; then south on Hwy 147 to Hodge; then south on Hwy 167 to Turkey Creek;. then south on Hwy 13 to Eunice; then west On Hwy 190 to Kinder; then south on Hwy 165 to Iowa; then west on I-10 to its junction with Hwy 14 at West: That portion of the state between the Lake Charles; then south and east on Texas State line and the line going east on I-10 Hwy 14 to its junction with Hwy 90 in from the Texas border to Hwy 165 at Iowa; then New Iberia; then east on Hwy 90 to north on Hwy 165 to Kinder; then east on Hwy the Mississippi State line.

7 190 to Eunice; then north on Hwy 13 to Turkey Coastal: Remainder of state. 53. MIGRATORY BIRDS. DOVE hunting . The state shall be divided into North and the open dove season. There is no bag limit South Dove hunting Zones by the following on Eurasian collared doves or ringed turtle boundary: Beginning at the Texas-Louisiana doves provided that a fully feathered wing border on LA 12; thence east along LA 12 to and head remain attached to the carcass of its intersection with US 190; thence east the bird . Fully dressed Eurasian collared along US 190 to its intersection with I-12; doves and ringed turtle doves (those with- thence east along I-12 to its intersection out a fully feathered wing and head naturally with I-10; thence east along I-10 to the attached to the carcass) shall be included in Mississippi state line. the daily bag limit for doves. The bag limit for mourning doves, white-winged doves and Eurasian collared doves and ringed turtle fully dressed Eurasian collared and ringed doves may only be hunted or taken during turtle doves is 15 in the aggregate.

8 BAND REPORTING. If you have found or harvested a banded 2, 2017 , you can only report it at www. bird , please report it at gov. You'll need the band number as well as where, when, and how you recovered the If some or all of the numbers have worn off, bird . Your contact information will be making the band unreadable, please email requested in case there are any questions. or visit The Geological Survey's Patuxent bird for Banding Lab ( ) will information on how to send the band for send you a certificate of appreciation that chemical etching. Most bands can be chem- includes information about the sex, age and ically etched so that the numbers can be species of the bird , and where and when it read. The process does not destroy the was banded. You may keep the band. Please band, and it will be returned to you. Thank note: Even if the band you recover you for helping manage MIGRATORY birds. is inscribed with a 1-800 number, as of July SUMMARY OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS. The following is a synopsis of Federal 50 CFR Part 20.

9 When State law is different Regulations that pertain to the hunting of from the following Federal law the hunter MIGRATORY game birds. Persons requiring must comply with the most restrictive law. more information should go to http://. where they will find a complete version of 54 2017 - 2018 Louisiana hunting Regulations MIGRATORY BIRDS. RESTRICTIONS has been placed, exposed, deposited, No person shall take MIGRATORY game distributed or scattered, if that salt, birds: grain, or other feed could serve as a lure with a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swiv- or attraction for MIGRATORY game birds el gun, shotgun larger than 10-gauge, to, on or over areas where hunters are punt gun, battery gun, machine gun, attempting to take them. Any such area fishhook, poison, drug, explosive or stu- will remain a baited area for 10 days fol- pefying substance. lowing the complete removal of all such with a shotgun capable of holding more salt, grain or other feed. Agricultural than three shells, unless it is plugged areas must be prepared in accordance with a one-piece filler which is inca- with official recommendations to be le- pable of removal without disassembling gally hunted.

10 It is a separate offense to the gun. This restriction does not apply place bait on or adjacent to an area that during the Conservation Order for Light causes, induces or allows another to Geese or those selected for the control hunt by the aid of bait or over a baited of resident Canada Geese. area. Hunters are responsible for ensur- from a sink box (a low floating device, ing that an area has not been baited and having a depression affording the hunt- should verify its legality prior to hunt- er a means of concealment beneath the ing. The maximum federal penalties surface of the water). are: for hunting over bait; $15,000/six from or with the aid of a car or other months jail, and placing bait; $100,000/. motor-driven land conveyance or any one year jail. aircraft, EXCEPT that paraplegic and sin- using records or tapes of MIGRATORY bird gle or double amputees of the legs may calls or sounds, or electronically ampli- take from any stationary motor vehicle fied imitations of bird calls.