DOVE 2014: Thanks to spring rains ... dove hunters are on 
track for a successful season ... on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

Despite exceptional drought along the Red River in North 
Central Texas and the extreme Panhandle, ample spring 
rains elsewhere promise good dove hunting this season.

14 -- Last year at this time about 45% of the state was either in an 
extreme or exceptional drought. [When] we get to those levels we 
see large-scale [negative] changes with habitat. And this year, 
we're only at about 20%; so we've had a lot more precipitation 
around the state.

Biologist Shaun Oldenburger says the season includes 
mourning and white-winged dove -- but don't expect to 
hunt them in the same place.

08 -- With white-winged dove, over 90% of our white-winged doves 
in the state of Texas breed in suburban or urban locations 
compared to most of our mourning doves which tend to be more 
rural.

For white-winged dove, consider setting up in grain fields 
and pastures nearby urban and suburban areas ... 

15 -- ... that may have good croton, or sunflower crops and then 
vetch, pigweed - stuff like that. For mourning dove, we look for 
perching habitat, we look for water and we look for food. And if 
you have a combination of those things, you usually can have a 
fairly decent hunt in those types of locations.

Find more information about dove season on the Texas 
parks and Wildlife website. 

The WSFR program supports our series; it's funded by 
your purchase of fishing and hunting equipment and 
motorboat fuel.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.





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