Mississippi Delta Duck Migration Forecast

Helena up through Crowley's Ridge and the river itself. Big-river birds trading between sandbars, oxbows and cut grain.

Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing

Where Mississippi Delta is

Mississippi Delta is drawn from 5 counties in Arkansas: Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips and St. Francis. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.

When Mississippi Delta peaks

DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around mid December. This follows the statewide pintail curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.

What DuckCast watches upstream of Mississippi Delta

3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Dyersburg, TN, about 115 miles northeast, Sikeston, MO, about 160 miles northeast and Paducah, KY, about 200 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.

Radar over Mississippi Delta

Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KNQA, the National Weather Service radar at Memphis, about 60 miles northeast of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.

Locations stay generalized

Hunter reports for Mississippi Delta are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.

Also covered in Arkansas

Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.

Grand Prairie, about 45 miles west
Cache and White River Bottoms, about 50 miles northwest
Southeast Delta, about 70 miles southwest
Northeast Delta, about 75 miles north
Central Arkansas, about 95 miles west
Arkansas River Valley, about 135 miles west
South Arkansas, about 170 miles southwest
Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 190 miles northwest

Across the state line

North Delta, Mississippi, about 30 miles southeast
North Hills Reservoirs, Mississippi, about 80 miles east
Central Delta, Mississippi, about 85 miles south

Live migration map

Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.