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Duck stamp required
In addition to your hunting license, if you're 16 years old or older, you must obtain a federal migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp (duck stamp) to hunt migratory game birds. Both traditional (printed) duck stamps and electronic (digital) duck stamps must be purchased each year before you go into the field to hunt. Duck stamps are valid July 1 through June 30 each hunting season.
Here are your options to purchase a duck stamp:
- Printed stamp: Purchase a physical (printed) duck stamp from your local post office, some license agents or by phone at 800-782-6724. Note: Duck stamps are not available at Division offices. After you buy a physical duck stamp, you must validate it by signing your name in ink across the face of the stamp. You must also carry your stamp with you while you're hunting (most hunters place their stamp on the back of their hunting license).
- E-stamp and DWR app download: Purchase an electronic duck stamp through the DWR license sales site. If you purchase an e-duck stamp through the DWR website, you can download it to your Utah Hunting and Fishing app to show proof of purchase.
- (New) Duckstamp.com and digital wallet download: Purchase an electronic duck stamp through the third party vendor Amplex. If you purchase an e-duck stamp from Amplex, you can download it to your Google or Apple wallet. (Downloading it to the DWR app is not an option.)
Get your HIP registration number
Regardless of your age, if you hunt any migratory game birds you are required to register for the Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) each hunting season. There is no charge to register.
Hunting waterfowl and migratory game birds in Utah
Waterfowl and Migratory Game Birds Guidebook
The Waterfowl and Migratory Game Birds Guidebook summarizes the laws and rules that govern waterfowl and other migratory game bird hunting in Utah. The guidebook is a quick, convenient reference for waterfowl and migratory game bird hunting regulations. For more complete information, read through the relevant state statutes and administrative rules.
Previous editions
Migratory game birds have moved
Beginning in 2025, the migratory game birds formerly included in the Utah Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook (American crow, band-tailed pigeon, mourning and white-winged dove, and sandhill crane) are now regulated under Utah Admin. Rule R657-9 as approved by the Utah Wildlife Board. If you're hunting migratory game birds — including waterfowl (ducks, geese, snipe, coots and tundra swan) — please refer to this information page and the newly named Utah Waterfowl and Migratory Game Birds Guidebook for permit information, field requirements, season dates, bag and possession limits, and more.
Hunt opener conditions
Duck harvest and population data reports
Swan hunting information
- Apply online for a tundra swan permit during the drawing application period.
- Orientation course: Required each year before applying for a tundra swan permit.
- Swan hunting boundary
- View your drawing results
- View swan permit drawing odds for past applications
- Great Salt Lake aerial swan survey
- Hunter swan harvest report form
Sandhill cranes
Crows
- VIDEO: Distinguishing between crows and ravens
- VIDEO: Distinguishing between the sounds crows and ravens make
- Crow and raven ID from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Hunting in national wildlife refuges
- Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
- Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge
- Ouray National Wildlife Refuge
HIP Registration number
Waterfowl identification
Waterfowl management plans
- Download federal management plans of various waterfowl species, courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Pacific Flyway Council
Waterfowl hunting maps
- Tundra swan hunting boundary
- Bicknell Bottoms WMA
- Browns Park WMA
- Clear Lake WMA
- Desert Lake WMA
- Farmington Bay WMA
- Harold Crane WMA
- Howard Slough WMA
- Locomotive Springs WMA
- Ogden Bay WMA
- Public Shooting Grounds WMA
- Salt Creek WMA
- Timpie Springs WMA
- Topaz WMA
- Willard Spur WMA
Utah waterfowl mercury advisories
- Waterfowl mercury & consumption advisories: This information is maintained by the Utah Department of Health's Environmental Epidemiology Program.
Utah Waterfowl Slam
- The Utah Waterfowl Slam provides adventures and supports wetland improvements. For $20, you can register to embark on the challenge. Participation is just $10 for hunters 17 years of age or younger.
