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 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. and fully-dressed Dec. 17 - Jan. 15 15 45. Eurasian Collared North Zone: in the aggregate in the aggregate and Ringed Turtle Sept.

3 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.

4 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. 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.

5 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.

6 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.

7 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.

8 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. 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.

9 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.

10 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. 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.