if you shot 1 over the limit could you claim that as a mistake bird?

mistake bird? lol

To bad we are not able to bag a "mistake" Yankee, the country would be a lot better off.

I agree this is ignorant. One of the important parts of Duck hunting is being able to ID birds. If you cannot do it you should not be hunting solo.

To bad we are not able to bag a "mistake" Yankee, the country would be a lot better off.

Hell, you're from north texas. You're a damn yankee to me. Better watch your back this teal season.

This idea of a mistake bird is a really bad idea and I can tell you why. A few days ago someone told me that a recent article online from the Houston newspaper about snipe hunting had made an identification mistake by using a picture of a Dowitcher captioned as a Snipe. When I did a google search for it, the top results was not that article but instead was some long threads from a couple of bird watching forums. The common response from individuals was that they had no problem with hunting, they know that hunters pay for many of the refuges, but felt if a bird was so difficult for hunters to identify that the wrong birds are often being shot, that it should not be allowed to be hunted.

So say we are allowed a "mistake" bird. Then the surveys are done both in the normal snail mail channels and on exit surveys from public hunts. It is going to show all these hunters shooting a bird by mistake. We know it is really a "bonus" bird to us and most hunters are going to take advantage of that, but that is not how the anti hunters are going to spin it and that is not how those bird watchers on the fence are going to see it. You will see the media report with some shocking report on the AP how hunters shot X amount of such and such birds by mistake last year and spin it to figure in that it must also have some "degree of error" for protected non game birds as well that must be getting killed related to the number of legal birds taken due to mistakes of identity. We would be cutting our own throats on this one. It would be better to add to the limit "and one of which can be a Wood Duck, Tree Duck, Mallard, Shoveler or some such wording. Instead of making hunters look like idiots, just call it what it is, an additional resident bird allowed in the limit, not a mistake bird.

Could be the best thing that ever happened to those early spoonies.

We know it is really a "bonus" bird to us and most hunters are going to take advantage of that, but that is not how the anti hunters are going to spin it and that is not how those bird watchers on the fence are going to see it. It would be better to add to the limit "and one of which can be a Wood Duck, Tree Duck, Mallard, Shoveler or some such wording. Instead of making hunters look like idiots, just call it what it is, an additional resident bird allowed in the limit, not a mistake bird.

I would bet money this is how it will be worded in the rule book. Just because a magazine article called it a mistake bird for the purpose of their article doesnt mean the law book will read that way.

And Ill say it again, an extra 9-14 days during september just means 9-14 days less during the regular season. It will not hurt anything except making people here jealous we cant shoot one big duck during teal season. I know I would love to shoot that one wood duck that always seems to taunt me by fling too close knowing I cant bust his a$$ yet.

I have seen you shoot at wood ducks. you cant seem to hit them during regular season.

Its because he doesn't pattern his gun...or lead his birds...or hunts a white lab...or uses a dog vest...or pattern his gun...

Teal season north of I10 is a waste of days that we could have added on to our big duck season

Isnt there a law that keeps us from hunting into February due to the mating habits???

I had an awesome teal season last year on public land here in north texas. just seemed to be lucky considering everyone elses bad luck, Isnt there a law that keeps us from hunting into February due to the mating habits???

Yes there is a law. Migratory bird act of 1918, and yes some years north TX is good for Teal, but year in year out south TX is better. I would rather have no Teal and no split in the north zone, but that will never happen just like the bonus bird will not happen here.

Yes there is a law. Migratory bird act of 1918, and yes some years north TX is good for Teal, but year in year out south TX is better. I would rather have no Teal and no split in the north zone, but that will never happen just like the bonus bird will not happen here.