{"id":32462,"date":"2021-01-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=32462"},"modified":"2021-01-12T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:20:48","slug":"marylands-winter-turkey-season-opens-jan-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/01\/13\/marylands-winter-turkey-season-opens-jan-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland\u2019s Winter Turkey Season Opens Jan. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opportunity for Hunters to Bag a Bird This Season<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4516\/24962172928_a4df58d07b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of group of wild turkeys in the snow\" width=\"361\" height=\"271\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Isaac Bonneville<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> announces the opening of the winter turkey season, which runs statewide from January 21-23 for hunters who did not harvest a turkey during the 2020 fall season.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunting hours are from one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset. The bag limit is one turkey of either sex.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWild turkey populations are at record high levels in many areas of Maryland,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cThe winter hunt provides an additional opportunity to bag a turkey when many hunters are putting their gear away for the season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the winter turkey season, hunters may only use shotguns loaded with No. 4 shot or smaller, crossbows, vertical bows, or airguns that shoot arrows or bolts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunters are reminded that it is illegal to hunt turkeys with the aid of bait. Hunters are required to check in their harvest via phone at 888-800-0121, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compass.dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or via the department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/dnrapp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mobile app<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/turkey-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Guide to Hunting and Trapping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> provides information about winter turkey hunting, including season open dates and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity for Hunters to Bag a Bird This Season The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the opening of the winter turkey season, which runs statewide from January 21-23 for hunters who did not harvest a turkey during the 2020 fall season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172],"tags":[4960,3122,4146],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting","tag-turkey","tag-winter-turkey-season"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32464,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions\/32464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}