News Release

FWC announces 2007-08 migratory game bird and crow hunting seasons

August 29, 2007
Contact: Mark A. Trainor (850) 488-8842

Rail and common moorhen

Season: Sept. 1 – Nov. 9
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limits (daily/possession):
Clapper & king rails – 15/30 (singly or in aggregate)
Sora & Virginia rails – 25/25 (singly or in aggregate)
Common moorhen – 15/30
Purple gallinule – No open season

Special early duck

Season: Sept. 22-26
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Legal to take: Wood duck, green-winged teal, blue-winged teal
Bag limit (daily/possession): 4/8. The four-duck daily bag limit may include no more than two wood ducks.

Canada goose on Lake Seminole

September Season: Sept. 1-26
Regular season, first phase: Nov. 17-25
Regular season, second phase: Dec. 1 – Jan. 30
Canada geese may be taken only in the Florida waters of Lake Seminole in Jackson County that are south of SR 2, north of the Jim Woodruff Dam and east of CR 271.
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Bag limit (daily/possession): 5/10. Taking or attempting to take brant or geese (except as described above) is prohibited.

Mourning and white-winged dove

Season:
First phase – Oct. 6-29
Second phase – Nov. 10-25
Third phase – Dec. 8 – Jan. 6
Shooting hours:
First phase – noon to sunset
Second and third phases – One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limit (daily/possession): 12/24 (singly or in aggregate)

Snipe

Season: Nov. 1 – Feb. 15
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limit (daily/possession): 8/16

Woodcock

Season: Dec. 15 – Jan. 13
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limit (daily/possession): 3/6

Crow

Season: Aug. 11 – Oct. 28 (Saturdays and Sundays only) and Nov. 11 – Feb. 18
Shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limit: No bag or possession limits

For general hunting season dates, follow this link.