shooting season
Legal hunting time
Shooting season is the legally designated period when hunting particular game animals is permitted.
Different species have different seasons, typically timed around breeding cycles and population management: Grouse shooting season opens in August.
Outside shooting season, taking game is poaching.
In British usage especially, the phrase evokes traditional country sports.
- huntingPursuing wild game
- big gameLarge hunted wildlife
- gameOrganized play or sport
- deerAntlered hoofed mammal
- pheasantLarge ornamental game bird
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- bird huntingduck hunting, goose hunting, pheasant hunting, quail hunting, shotguns
- British huntingfox hunting, fox hunt, foxhound, foxhunting, deer hunt
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Protected period for wildlife
off-season · close season · hunting ban · moratorium · out of season
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Protected period for wildlife
breeding season · nesting season · spawning season · mating season · recovery period
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