Daily
Bag Limits:
Ducks: Daily
limit is 6, including no more than 4
mallards (of which no more than 2 may be
female), 2 wood ducks, 2 redheads, 1 black
duck, 1 pintail, 2 canvasback and 2 scaup.
Mergansers:
Daily limit is 5, including no more than 2
hooded merganser.
Coots: Daily
limit is 15.
Geese: Daily
limit is 2 Canada geese, 2 white-fronted
geese, 1 brant, and 20 snow geese, EXCEPT
during the special September Canada goose
season in the Des Moines and Cedar
Rapids/Iowa City Zones when the bag limit is
5 Canada geese.
Woodcock: Daily
limit is 3.
Snipe: Daily
limit is 8.
Rail (Sora and
Virginia): Daily limit is 12.
Possession Limits:
Possession limits are twice the daily bag
limit for all the above species, except for
light geese for which there is no possession
limit.
Shooting Hours:
One-half hour before sunrise
to sunset for all species except woodcock,
which is sunrise to sunset.
Additional Area regulations:
Inviolate
refuges, blinds, etc.
Canada Goose Closed Areas:
Download these PDF maps
for the current boundaries.
1
Duck Hunting Zones - The
North Duck Hunting Zone - that portion of
Iowa north of a line beginning on the
Nebraska-Iowa border at State Highway 175,
east to State Highway 37, southeast to U.S.
Highway 183, northeast to State Highway 141,
east to U.S. Highway 30 and along U.S.
Highway 30 to the Iowa-Illinois border. The
South Duck Hunting Zone is the remainder of
the state south of this line.
2
Goose Hunting Zones - The North Goose
Hunting Zone is that part of Iowa north of
U.S. Highway 20. The South Goose Hunting
Zone is the remainder of the state.
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