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Wisconsin northern bobwhite hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from WDNR data · 2026 season year

Northern bobwhite season is shut in Wisconsin today. It opens October 17, 2026 — 23 days away. The bird is barely present in Wisconsin.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
October 17, 2026
Season
October 17, 2026 to December 9, 2026 — 54 days afield
Bag
5 per day, 15 in possession

Computed against the day this page was built, from WDNR'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 extreme south-west, at the northern edge of the species' range and thin even there. Wisconsin does set a season — statewide, five a day, from mid-October to early December — but the season is statewide and the bird is not.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below
32 of 43 subbasins draining Wisconsin 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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