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North Carolina northern bobwhite hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from NCWRC data · 2026–27 season year

Northern bobwhite season is shut in North Carolina today. It opens November 21, 2026 — 58 days away. The bird is well established in North Carolina.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
November 21, 2026
Season
November 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027 — 100 days afield
Bag
not published

Computed against the day this page was built, from NCWRC's dates. This page carries no weather and no bird count: this app holds neither a hunting-weather model nor a population survey for northern bobwhite, and a report that invented either would be worse than one that says so.

September in the cover

Broomsedge and native warm-season grass with bare ground under it, brushy field borders, and the edge of a cut field against a hedgerow. Quail need to walk under the cover, not through it, which is why manicured ground holds none.

Where the bird is

The Piedmont and the coastal plain, and the one state on this list where the bobwhite story is not simply decline — NCWRC runs an active restoration programme, the CURE co-operative, on focal landscapes.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below 2 units too small to draw
37 of 46 subbasins draining North Carolina carry a northern bobwhite record. Observed occurrences, not a range map and not a habitat model. Scored as a share of all bird records in the same cell, so a well-watched county does not read as better bird country than an unwatched one. The mesh is the subbasin — the unit this app scores in — and not the state line, so its edge is a drainage divide rather than a border. The green is the 10 public units in the table below, drawn as PAD-US records their boundaries: context, not permission.

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