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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 15, 2005

IDNR Announces New Season Dates for Crow Hunters

SPRINGFIELD - New dates have been established for crow hunting in Illinois for the 2005-06 season to provide more hunting opportunity in the fall when crows are migrating and are present in larger numbers in the state.

Illinois hunters will be allowed to take crows from Oct. 15, 2005-Feb. 28, 2006, though the crow season will be closed during all gun deer seasons. The upcoming gun deer seasons during which no crow hunting will be allowed are Nov. 18-20 and Dec. 1-4 (firearm), Dec. 9-11 (muzzleloader-only) and Jan. 13-15 (late winter deer season).

Illinois formerly offered a split crow hunting season that began July 1-Aug. 15 and reopened Dec. 15-March 1.

Hunter surveys indicated a preference for fall/winter crow hunting opportunities compared with the summer/winter season that had been in place. Federal regulations allow a maximum of 124 days for crow hunting during each season.

Hunters may use shotguns, calls, electronic calls, decoys, and blinds during the state’s established crow hunting season. Crow hunting hours are a half-hour before sunrise to sunset with no daily bag limit. The crow season is closed during all gun deer seasons because crow hunters would be required to wear a blaze orange cap and upper outer garment during deer seasons and it would be very difficult to hunt crows wearing blaze orange.

The new crow season is not intended to increase harvest, but to provide more hunting opportunity during migration.

Illinois crow harvest in recent years:

1999-2000 - 11,244 hunters took 69,767 crows
2000-01 - 6,910 hunters took 47,743 crows
2001-02 - 8,373 hunters took 60, 507 crows
2002-03 - 4,826 hunters took 45,144 crows


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