{"id":223864,"date":"2025-06-17T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223864"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:27:16","slug":"georgia-waterfowl-hunters-face-shorter-teal-season-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=223864","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Waterfowl Hunters Face Shorter Teal Season This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia waterfowl hunters will need to adjust their plans for the upcoming season. The state has approved new hunting dates for 2025\u201326, including a shorter early teal season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd86 <strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Teal populations dropped during last year\u2019s survey, prompting wildlife officials to reduce hunting days for one of Georgia\u2019s most popular waterfowl seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <strong>What\u2019s changing:<\/strong> Early teal season will run September 13\u201321, down from the usual 16 days. Bag limits remain the same, but hunters will have fewer days in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccb <strong>Mark your calendar:<\/strong> Canada goose season opens September 6 and runs through September 28. Duck season runs November 22\u201330 and resumes December 6\u2013January 25. Canada goose hunting will also be permitted during three additional seasons this fall and winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf96\ufe0f <strong>Special days:<\/strong> Youth hunters (15 and under), veterans and active-duty military can hunt November 15\u201316. Youth hunters must be accompanied by an adult 18 or older, unless the adult qualifies as a veteran or active military member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcb0 <strong>What you need:<\/strong> Hunters must have a Georgia hunting license, a Georgia migratory bird license and a federal duck stamp. Licenses can be purchased at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/gooutdoorsgeorgia.com\">GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com<\/a> or by calling (800) 366-2661.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=13]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia waterfowl hunters will need to adjust their plans for the upcoming season. The state has approved new hunting dates for 2025\u201326, including a shorter early teal season. \ud83e\udd86 Why it matters: Teal populations dropped during last year\u2019s survey, prompting wildlife officials to reduce hunting days for one of Georgia\u2019s most popular waterfowl seasons. \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":204010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10429],"tags":[10250,18249,18248],"class_list":["post-223864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recreation","tag-hunting","tag-teal","tag-waterfowl","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}