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Virginia northern bobwhite hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from VDWR data · 2026–27 licence year

Northern bobwhite season is shut in Virginia today. It opens November 7, 2026 — 44 days away. The bird is thin and local in Virginia.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
November 7, 2026
Season
November 7, 2026 to January 31, 2027 — 86 days afield
Bag
6 per day

Computed against the day this page was built, from VDWR'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 south-east are the quail ground, and the long-term trend is down. Note the closure: quail is shut on all public land west of the Blue Ridge, and on Flippo-Gentry WMA.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below 9 units too small to draw
43 of 53 subbasins draining Virginia 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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