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Hawaii · 2026-27 season year

Hawaii Small Game Season 2026-27

Quail: published by the agency, read them there. Pheasant: published by the agency, read them there. Every date below was read from Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife’s own published page, linked beside it, on September 19, 2026.

This page covers the 2026-27 season year. Dates were read from the agency sources linked below, last checked September 19, 2026. Seasons change annually and agencies correct their own pages; confirm against the linked agency page before you hunt.
On the agency page
Pheasant
on the agency page
On the agency page
Quail
on the agency page
No open season
Grouse
no season
No open season
Rabbit
no season
No open season
Squirrel
no season
Statewide
Zone structure
as the agency draws it
Five seasons, one state

Hawaii small game seasons, 2026-27

“When does small game season open” is five questions wearing one coat. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife dates introduced game birds hunted under the division's annual game bird season announcement (pheasants, francolins, quail, chukar and other partridges, doves, sandgrouse and wild turkey); Hawaii has no grouse, and rabbits and squirrels are not game mammals separately, so each species is below under the agency’s own name for it, with the zone rows exactly as the agency lists them.

Game bird hunting season

on the agency page

Hawaii pheasant season: read them on the agency’s own page

Hawaii dates pheasant inside a single statewide game bird season that the Division of Forestry and Wildlife sets each autumn in an annual game bird season announcement, listing the open public hunting units and hunting days island by island. The division's website refused every automated reader on the day this record was made, so the 2026-2027 announcement could not be checked and no dates are republished; the division's hunting announcements page is the source. California and Japanese quail are hunted in the same annual game bird season as pheasant, francolin, chukar, doves and sandgrouse, under the division's yearly announcement rather than a fixed statewide window. That announcement could not be read in this session, so the season is left to the division's own page. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife publishes the current dates on its own page, linked below.

Read the dates at Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife

Opening day, the daily limit and the full season calendar are on the Hawaii pheasant season page.

Grouse

no season

Hawaii has no open grouse season for 2026-27. Hawaii holds no grouse season. No grouse species occurs in the islands, and the division's game bird program covers introduced pheasants, francolins, quail, partridges, doves, sandgrouse and wild turkey rather than any grouse. Source: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife.

Rabbit

no season

Hawaii has no open rabbit season for 2026-27. Hawaii holds no rabbit season. The division's game mammal exhibits to Title 13 Chapter 123, which set the public hunting unit seasons island by island, name feral pigs, feral goats and deer as the game mammals to be taken and carry no rabbit row. Source: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife.

Squirrel

no season

Hawaii has no open squirrel season for 2026-27. Hawaii holds no squirrel season. There is no wild squirrel population in the islands and the division's game mammal exhibits, which list feral pigs, feral goats and deer, carry no squirrel row. Source: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife.

A rooster ring-necked pheasant with a red face, iridescent green head and white neck ring striding through dry pale crop stubble
A rooster in harvested crop stubble in North Dakota. Most pheasant openers land in October and November, once the fields are cut. Photo: Courtney Celley, USFWS. “Ring-necked pheasant (54120901581)”, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Midwest Region, Public domain
Rules

Hawaii small game hunting regulations

Season windows are carried here with their source and read date attached. Everything else a hunter is bound by is set by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, and its regulations page is linked below.

Current Hawaii regulations

Bag and possession limits, legal methods, shooting hours, license and stamp requirements, and youth or special season rules for Hawaii are set by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, are legally binding and change annually. Its current regulations page is linked here.

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife: current regulations
Close view of an eastern cottontail rabbit in green grass, ears up, dark round eye and white chin catching the light
An eastern cottontail. Rabbit is usually the last small game season to close, running into February in most of the East and Midwest. Photo: Grayson Smith, USFWS. “Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (48935527872)”, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Midwest Region, Public domain

Small game season dates in other West states

Every state’s pheasant, quail, grouse, rabbit and squirrel dates are on the national small game season page.

A pair of northern bobwhite quail standing together in a carpet of purple violets, the male with a bold white throat and eye stripe, the female buff faced
A bobwhite pair. Quail seasons run from late autumn into winter across the South and Midwest; several western states date scaled, Gambel's and California quail on the same row. Photo: Steve Maslowski, USFWS. “Colinus virginianus USFWS”, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, Public domain
Hawaii pheasant seasonOpening day, the daily limit and the full Hawaii pheasant calendar, read from the same agency.Hawaii deer seasonArchery, firearms, muzzleloader and youth deer dates for 2026-27, under the same sourcing rules.Hawaii turkey seasonSpring and fall wild turkey windows for 2026-27, read from the same agency.Hawaii fall foliagePeak color and the first grouse and squirrel weeks overlap. Plan the same trip.

Hawaii small game season questions

A fox squirrel with a grey back and rust orange belly crouched on a lichen covered branch against bare winter trees and blue sky
A fox squirrel in bare winter woods in Ohio. Squirrel is the earliest small game opener in many states, from mid August or September, and runs to January or February. “Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger vulpinus) (13255025953)” by Andrew C, CC BY 2.0

This page covers the 2026-27 season year with data as of September 19, 2026. Every season window is republished from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife page linked beside it, read on September 19, 2026; windows the agency had not yet published are labelled not yet published. Bag and possession limits, legal methods, shooting hours and licence rules are set by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, whose page is the final word on the day you hunt. See also the national small game season guide.