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hunting has upon dove populations, and can better pinpoint how many can be killed without reducing the overall population. The increased bag is tied in with a comprehensive program of banding, mail and phone hunter surveys, and the study of some 31,000 dove wings collected from hunters during the past hunting season.
The statistical study, now entering its fourth year, has already provided some new insights into dove numbers, behavior and biology. The data to date suggests that immature doves don’t flock or become important to the hunter until they are about 3 months of age. Analysis of band returns and hunter kill indicates that there are about 200,000,000 doves in the eastern management unit of which hunters bag about 20,000,000 each fall. Virginia hunters are credited with downing about a million birds during the traditional split season. There is no evidence as yet that hunting is significant in limiting mourning dove populations, except locally, but dove numbers do appear to vary unexplainable from year to year.
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