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Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game

Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Pheasant population expected to benefit from mild winter

Iowa’s pheasant population is expected to benefit from the 2024-25 mild winter and average spring that much of the state experienced.

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June 24, 2025
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Male pheasant side profile with long feathers, brown body, green neck and red around the eye.
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Well designed, actively managed CRP benefits pheasants and more

Prescribed fire is the most cost-effective way to manage land enrolled in CRP, providing ecological benefits to native plantings which in turn, benefit wildlife

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April 15, 2025
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DNR Logo, white text on green circle.
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Iowa’s pheasant season evolved over decades

Iowa’s current 70-plus day long pheasant season, opening on the last Saturday in October through January 10 each year, is a long way from how it began.

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March 25, 2025
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Hunter walking a field in the fall.
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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Ring-necked pheasants’ unlikely journey to becoming an Iowa icon

It was still an hour before the 2024 pheasant season would open but the birds were there and they were ready.

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March 11, 2025
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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Pheasant survey predicts another year of good hunting for most of Iowa

Results of Iowa’s 2024 pheasant population survey are in and the results were nearly identical to the 2022 and 2021.

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August 27, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Iowa’s rabbit, squirrel season opens Aug. 31

The good news for Iowa’s cottontail rabbit hunters is that Iowa has an abundant rabbit population.

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August 20, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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2023 saw Iowa’s best pheasant harvest in 16 years

Iowa’s pheasant hunters bagged more than 590,000 roosters last fall, the most since 2007.

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August 20, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Iowa’s dove season begins Sept. 1

The 2023 season saw the highest number of doves harvested since Iowa began holding mourning dove seasons – nearly 195,000 birds.

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August 20, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Kunch family donation becomes popular hunting spot

George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa, in 2005.

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August 13, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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Iowa pheasant population survey begins Aug. 1

Pheasant hunters across the northern half of Iowa had an excellent season last year, and many are looking forward to what 2024 has in store.

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July 30, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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Iowa’s 2024 pheasant nesting outlook

Iowa’s pheasant population typically shows increases following mild winters with springs that are dryer and warmer than normal.

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July 23, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game

Iowa’s Prairie Chicken Festival is April 6

The unique courtship of Iowa’s prairie chickens will be on full display at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area on April 6.

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March 26, 2024
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
News Release

Think safety before opening day

Hunters heading to the field for the opening weekend of pheasant season are encouraged to review safe hunting practices before they head out.

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October 24, 2023
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game
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Anticipation is high for Iowa’s 2023 pheasant season

Iowa’s pheasant population is up, the crop harvest is advancing quickly and the weekend weather forecast is set for an excellent opening weekend pheasant season

Display Date
October 24, 2023
Hunting - Pheasant Doves Small Game

Iowa’s youth enjoy special pheasant season Oct. 21-22

Iowa’s young hunters will get to experience the first cackle and flush of the year during the youth only pheasant season, Oct. 21-22.

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October 17, 2023

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