{"id":34225,"date":"2021-09-10T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=34225"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T03:10:18","slug":"marylands-early-teal-season-opens-sept-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/09\/10\/marylands-early-teal-season-opens-sept-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland\u2019s Early Teal Season Opens Sept. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Special Season Provides Additional Waterfowl Opportunity<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marylanddnr\/49101256356\/in\/photolist-25zDDGB-skuhE1-2hNULRs-UdNt64-rKwMNV-GEmyLQ-2eaMjP5-rKwMMx-rZHyuG-s2ZduM-rKpWeh-rKpsTU-s2Rx3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49101256356_a1b5314596.jpg\" alt=\"Image of stamp with painting of waterfowl\" width=\"353\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/mgb_stamps.aspx\">Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp<\/a> featured a pair of blue-winged teal, painted by Jeffrey Klinefelter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0announces that the September teal-only hunting season will be open from Sept. 16 through Sept. 30. Shooting hours are one half-hour before sunrise until sunset, the daily bag limit is six teal (blue or green-winged), and the possession limit is 18 teal, or three times the daily bag limit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seasons and bag limits for all other migratory game birds can be found in the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2021-22 Maryland Guide to Hunting and Trapping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe early teal season allows waterfowl hunters a way to get a jump on the season and experience all the great opportunities Maryland has to offer,\u201d Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Paul Peditto said.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All migratory game bird hunters, including landowners who are license-exempt, must possess a valid\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eregulations.com\/maryland\/hunting\/hunting-licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp\/Harvest Information Program permit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. All waterfowl hunters age 16 and older are also required to\u00a0possess a federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (federal duck stamp), which must be signed in ink across the face to be valid. Hunters buying the federal stamp online may use the purchase code or printed receipt to show proof of purchase for 45 days. Hunters will receive the physical stamp in the mail from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within this time frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunters with questions may contact the department at 410-260-8540.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Season Provides Additional Waterfowl Opportunity The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0announces that the September teal-only hunting season will be open from Sept. 16 through Sept. 30. Shooting hours are one half-hour before sunrise until sunset, the daily bag limit is six teal (blue or green-winged), and the possession limit is 18 teal, or three times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2021\/09\/10\/marylands-early-teal-season-opens-sept-16\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/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":[4498,4046,3071,3638,3030],"class_list":["post-34225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","tag-hunting-seasons","tag-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp","tag-migratory-game-bird-hunting-seasons","tag-teal","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225","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=34225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34255,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions\/34255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}