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Summary: Proposed 2010-2011 Migratory Game Bird Seasons

Early season species:

Dove:  Staff anticipates that Texas will have a 70-day season with a 15-bird daily bag limit.

            North Zone:  September 1 — October 24, 2010; December 25, 2010 — January 9, 2011

            Central Zone:  September 1 — October 24, 2010; December 25, 2010 — January 9, 2011

            South Zone:  September 17 — October 31,2010; December 25, 2010 — January 18, 2011

Special White Winged Dove Area*:  September 4-5 and 11-12, 2010; September 17 — October 31, 2010 and December 25, 2010 — January 14, 2011.

*Shooting hours in the SWWDA during the September special season are from noon to sunset.  There is an aggregate daily bag limit of 15 dove (no more than 4 mourning dove and no more than 2 white-tipped dove).  During the general season the aggregate bag limit is 15.

Woodcock:  Staff anticipates that Texas will have a 45-day season with a 3-bird daily bag.

            Statewide:  December 18, 2010 — January 31, 2011

Snipe:  Staff anticipates that Texas will have a 107-day season with an 8-bird daily bag.

Statewide:  October 30, 2010 — February 13, 2011

Rails/Gallinules/Moorhens:  Staff anticipates that Texas will have a 70-day season.

            Statewide:  September 11 — 26, 2010 and October 30 — December 22, 2010

            Daily bag limits:

Sora and Virginia rails — 25

                        King and clapper rails — 15

                        Purple gallinules and common moorhens — 15

Teal:  Staff anticipates either a 9-day or a 16-day season with a 4-bird daily bag limit.

            Statewide:  September 18 — 26, 2010 (9-day season)

                               September 11 — 26, 2010 (16-day season)

Late Season Species:

Ducks:  Staff anticipates a "liberal" package from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

North and South Zone: October 30 — November 28, 2010; December 11, 2010 — January 23, 2011.

High Plains Mallard Management Unit — October 23-24, 2010 and October 29, 2010 — January 23, 2011.  Youth seasons will be the weekend before opening day of the general season in each zone.

            Daily bag limit:  Coots — 15.

Ducks — 6 in the aggregate, to include no more than 5 mallards (only 2 of which may be hens); 3 wood ducks; 2 scaup (lesser scaup and greater scaup in the aggregate); 2 redheads; 1 pintail; 1 canvasback and 1 dusky duck (mottled duck, Mexican like duck, black duck and their hybrids) after the first 5 days in each zone.

Mergansers — 5 in the aggregate, to include no more than 2 hooded mergansers

Geese:  Staff anticipates that Texas will have a 107-day season for snow and dark geese and a 72-day season for white-fronted geese in the Eastern Zone, and 95-day for all species in the West Zone.

            East Zone:

            White-fronted goose:  October 30, 2010 — January 9, 2011

            Canada and light geese:  October 30, 2010 — January 23, 2011

            Daily bag limit:

                        Light geese — 20 in the aggregate

                        Canada geese — 3

                        White-fronted geese — 2

            West Zone (all species):  November 6, 2010 — February 6, 2011.

            Daily Bag Limit:

                        Light geese — 20 in the aggregate

                        Dark geese — 4 Canada and 1 white-fronted goose

Sandhill Cranes:  Staff anticipates a 93-day crane season with a 3-bird bag limit in Zones A and B, and a 37-day season with a 2-bird bag limit in Zone C.

            Zone A:  November 6, 2010 — February 6, 2011

            Zone B:  November 26, 2010 — February 6, 2011

            Zone C:  December 18, 2010 — January 23, 2011

Falconry:  January 24, 2011 — February 7, 2011 (North and South Zones only).