When to Hunt
Location: Statewide
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 2
- Possession limit: 6
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
Location: Statewide
(Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves)
- Area open: Statewide
- Season: Year-round
- Daily bag limit: There is no limit on Eurasian collared or ringed turtle doves, but any taken during the migratory dove season in addition to the mourning and white-winged dove daily bag must have a fully-feathered wing attached while being transported.
Location: Statewide
- Cottontail & Jackrabbit
- Regular: All year
- Area Open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 10
- Possession limit: 30
Location: Unit(s) Specified on Permit
January Elk Season Outside Fort Riley - Firearm
Location: Statewide
Season Dates (statewide): All year
Season Limit: No limit
There is no closed season for trapping or hunting coyotes. Motor vehicles and radios in vehicles may be used to hunt coyotes only. Furharvester license is required to trap and sell; hunting license is required to hunt and sell.
Location: Statewide
Equipment: Artificial light, scopes and equipment that amplify visible light, and thermal imaging scopes and thermal imaging equipment may be used to hunt coyotes from September 1 thru March 31 with the exception of antlered deer firearm seasons. Use of this equipment is not permitted on department lands and waters, including WIHA, and may not be used in conjunction with the use of a vehicle);
Permit Required: Night Vision Equipment Permit required
Location: Statewide
Location: Statewide
NOTE: All furbearer hunting, trapping, and running seasons begin at 12:00 a.m. on opening day and close at midnight of closing day.
Species: badger, bobcat, mink, muskrat, raccoon, opossum, swift fox, red fox, gray fox, striped skunk, weasel.
Location: Statewide
Otter Bag Limits and Management Units
NO OPEN TRAPPING OR HUNTING SEASON ON ANY OTHER FURBEARERS
Location: Statewide
- Area Open: Statewide
- Limit: No Limit
Location: Statewide
- Daily Bag Limit: 50
- Possession Limit: no limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Stamp, State, Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Waterfowl Stamp
Location: Statewide
- Includes Canada & Cackling Geese (all geese except light and white-fronted)
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 6 (including Brant)
- Possession limit: 18
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
Location: Statewide
- Area Open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 5
- Possession limit: 20
Location: Statewide
Species: Raccoon, opossum
Furharvester license required.
Hunting and trapping by methods that are legal during the general furbearer season are allowed, except that only traps allowed during the extended season are cage or box traps and dog-proof (DP) foot encapsulating traps. Artificial light is prohibited except as permitted for taking treed or trapped furbearers during the general season.
Location: Posted Areas
Posted Areas Include
Inside city parks on the Neosho River in Chetopa and Burlington, Neosho River at Iola downstream from dam to city limits, Marais des Cygnes River below Osawatomie Dam downstream to posted boundary, Marais des Cygnes River from the upstream boundary of the Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Area downstream to the Kansas-Missouri border, and the Browning Oxbow Lake of the Missouri River.
Location: Unit Specified on Permit
Spring Turkey - Youth/Disabled; open to any person having a valid turkey permit who is age 17 or younger, while under the immediate supervision of an adult who is age 18 or older and any person with a disability as defined in K.S.A. 8-1,124.
Non-resident hunters may obtain a spring turkey permit by lottery draw for Unit 1, 2, 3, 5, or 6. Non-resident permits are only valid in the Unit indicated. The application period is 01/13/26 – 02/13/26. Any leftover non-resident spring turkey permits will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis on a date set after the drawing is completed and the public is notified of the date.
There will be no additional game tags (valid for a second turkey) available in 2026 for resident and non-resident hunters.
DOVE & OTHER MIGRATORY BIRDS
DUCK, COOT & MERGANSER
GOOSE
YOUTH, VETERAN & ACTIVE MILITARY DAYS
EXTENDED FALCONRY WATERFOWL
MIGRATORY DOVE (Mourning and white-winged)
- Season: 09/01/2025 - 11/29/2025
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: no more than 15 total (not each)
- Possession limit: 45
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit
EXOTIC DOVE (Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves only)
- Season: 01/01/2025 - 12/31/2025
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: No limit
- Possession limit: No limit
- Note: There is no limit on Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves, but any taken in addition to a limit of mourning and white-winged doves during the migratory dove season must have a fully-feathered wing attached during transport.
RAIL (Sora and Virginia)
- Season: 09/01/2025 - 11/09/2025
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 25 total (not each)
- Possession limit: 75
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit
SNIPE
- Season: 09/01/2025 - 12/16/2025
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 8
- Possession limit: 24
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit
WOODCOCK
- Season: 10/11/2025 - 11/24/2025
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 3
- Possession limit: 9
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit
SANDHILL CRANE, CENTRAL ZONE
- Season: 11/05/2025 - 01/01/2026
- Daily bag limit: 3
- Possession limit: 9
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, Sandhill Crane Permit
SANDHILL CRANE, WEST ZONE
- Season: 10/18/2025 - 12/14/2025
- Daily bag limit: 3
- Possession limit: 9
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, Sandhill Crane Permit
TEAL, HIGH PLAINS ZONE
- Season: 09/20/2025 - 09/28/2025
- Area open: West of Hwy. U. S. 283
- Daily bag limit: 6 teal (any combination of teal: blue-winged, green-winged or cinnamon teal)
- Possession limit: 18 teal in possession (any combination of teal: blue-winged, green-winged or cinnamon teal)
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
TEAL, LOW PLAINS ZONE
- Season: 09/13/2025 - 09/21/2025
- Area open: East of Hwy. U. S. 283
- Daily bag limit: 6 teal (any combination of teal: blue-winged, green-winged or cinnamon teal)
- Possession limit: 18 teal in possession (any combination of teal: blue-winged, green-winged or cinnamon teal)
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
DUCKS, COOTS & MERGANSERS - HIGH PLAINS UNIT
- Season: 10/11/2025 - 01/04/2026 and 01/16/2026 - 01/25/2026
- Area open: High Plains Zone (see map)
- Daily bag limit: 6, any combination of six ducks and/or mergansers of which no more than five mallards (only two of which may be hens), three wood ducks, two redheads, two canvasbacks, one scaup and one pintail.
- Possession limit: Three times the daily limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
DUCKS, COOTS & MERGANSERS - LOW PLAINS UNIT, EARLY ZONE
- Season: 10/11/2025 - 12/07/2025 and 12/20/2025 - 01/04/2026
- Area open: Early Zone (see map)
- Daily bag limit: 6, any combination of six ducks and/or mergansers of which no more than five mallards (only two of which may be hens), three wood ducks, two redheads, two canvasbacks, one scaup and one pintail.
- Possession limit: Three times the daily limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
DUCKS, COOTS & MERGANSERS - LOW PLAINS UNIT, LATE ZONE
- Season: 11/01/2025 - 01/04/2026 and 01/17/2026 - 01/25/2026
- Area open: Late Zone (see map)
- Daily bag limit: 6, any combination of six ducks and/or mergansers of which no more than five mallards (only two of which may be hens), three wood ducks, two redheads, two canvasbacks, one scaup and one pintail.
- Possession limit: Three times the daily limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
DUCKS, COOTS & MERGANSERS - LOW PLAINS UNIT, SOUTHEAST ZONE
- Season: 11/08/25 - 01/04/2026 and 01/10/2026 - 01/25/2026
- Area open: Southeast Zone (see map)
- Daily bag limit: 6, any combination of six ducks and/or mergansers of which no more than five mallards (only two of which may be hens), three wood ducks, two redheads, two canvasbacks, one scaup and one pintail.
- Possession limit: Three times the daily limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
COOTS
- Season: Same as duck seasons
- Area Open: Statewide
- Daily Bag Limit: 15
- Possession Limit: 45
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
CANADA & CACKLING GEESE (all geese except light & white-fronted)
- Season: First Segment 11/01/2025 - 11/02/2025 and Second Segment 11/05/2025 - 02/15/2026
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 6 total (including Brant geese)
- Possession limit: 18
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE
- Season: 11/01/25 - 01/04/2026 and 01/24/2026 - 02/15/2026
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 2
- Possession limit: 6
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
LIGHT GEESE
- Season: 11/01/2025 - 11/02/2025 and 11/05/2025 - 02/15/2026
- Area open: Statewide
- Daily bag limit: 50
- Possession limit: No limit
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
LIGHT GEESE, CONSERVATION ORDER
- Season: 02/16/2026 - 04/30/2026
- Area Open: Statewide
- Daily Limit: Unlimited
- Possession Limit: Unlimited
- Stamps Required: Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp, Federal Duck Stamp
- Equipment Restrictions: During the Conservation Order, unplugged shotguns and electronic calls may be used. Shooting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.
High Plains Unit: 10/04/2025 - 10/05/2025
Low Plains Early Zone: 09/27/2025 - 09/28/2025
Low Plains Late Zone: 10/18/2025 - 10/19/2025
Low Plains Southeast Zone: 10/25/2025 - 10/26/2025
Note: Youth must be 17 years old or younger
High Plains Unit: Closed to extended falconry
Low Plains Unit, all zones (Early, Late & Southeast): 02/24/2026 - 03/10/2026
Daily Bag Limit: 3 total all migratory game birds