Game Bird Hunting

Migratory Game Bird

Game Bird	Game Hunting Area	Season Dates	Species Bag Limit (All GBHZs)
Resident and Non-resident (Cdn. only)
Ducks, Coots, Snipe	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 8 - Nov 30	Ducks Coots Snipe	8* 8 10	24* 24 30
Dark Geese	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 8 - Nov 30	Canada, White-front & Brant and Cackling	8	24
White Geese	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 8 - Nov 30	Snow, Blue & Ross	20	80
Conservation Snow Geese	GBHZ 1, 2, 3 & 4 GBHZ 1	Apr 1 - May 31 Aug 15 - Aug 31	Snow & Blue only	20	80
Sandhill Crane	>GBHZ 1, 2 , 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Nov 30	Sandhill Crane	5	15
*In GBHZ 4 not more than 4 daily or 12 in possession may be canvasback or redheads or a combination of the two species.

Game Bird	Game Hunting Area	Season Dates	Species Bag Limit (All GBHZs)
Resident Youth Hunting
Waterfowler Heritage Days	GBHZ 2, 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Sept 7	Duck and goose bag limits are the same as Resident season for that particular GBHZ.

Game Bird	Game Hunting Area	Season Dates	Species Bag Limit (All GBHZs)
Foreign resident
Ducks, Coots, Snipe	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 24 - Nov 30	Ducks Coots Snipe	8* 8 10	24* 24 30
Dark Geese	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 24- Nov 30	Canada, White-front & Brant and Cackling	5	15
White Geese	GBHZ 1 GBHZ 2 GBHZ 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Oct 31 Sept 8 - Nov 30 Sept 17 - Nov 30	Snow, Blue & Ross	20	80
Conservation Snow Geese	GBHZ 1, 2, 3 & 4 GBHZ 1	Apr 1 - May 31 Aug 15 - Aug 31	Snow & Blue only	20	80
Sandhill Crane	GBHZ 1, 2 , 3 & 4	Sept 1 - Nov 30	Sandhill Crane	5	15
In GBHZ 4 not more than 2 daily or 6 in possession may be canvasback or redheads or a combination of the two species. Morning only goose hunting for foreign resident hunters: In GBHZ 4 and GHAs 13A, 14, 14A, part 16, 18, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19, 19A, 19B, 20, 21A, 23A and 25 goose hunting is restricted to morning only (1/2 hour before sunrise to 12:00 noon) up to and including Sunday, October 9. Beginning Monday, October 10, geese may be hunted all day. During the first week of the foreign resident white goose season (Sept 17 - Sept 23) hunters may hunt white geese all day. Note:* Residents of the U.S. are not required to obtain a CITES export permit to personally transport into the U.S. fresh, frozen or salted sandhill cranes they have harvested.