Arkansas Coverage
Southeast Delta Duck Migration Forecast
White River bottoms, Arkansas Post and the oxbows down to Chicot. Deep timber and big water that hold birds through hard weather.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Southeast Delta is
Southeast Delta is drawn from 6 counties in Arkansas: Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Jefferson and Lincoln. 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 Southeast 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 Southeast Delta
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Dyersburg, TN, about 185 miles northeast, Sikeston, MO, about 230 miles northeast and Mount Vernon, IL, about 340 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Southeast Delta
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KLZK, the National Weather Service radar at Little Rock, about 85 miles northwest of the region’s weather point. That is well outside the region, so treat the radar reading as area context rather than a measurement of this ground. 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 Southeast 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 50 miles north
- Mississippi Delta, about 70 miles northeast
- Central Arkansas, about 85 miles northwest
- Cache and White River Bottoms, about 95 miles north
- South Arkansas, about 115 miles west
- Arkansas River Valley, about 130 miles northwest
- Northeast Delta, about 145 miles northeast
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 200 miles northwest
Across the state line
- Central Delta, Mississippi, about 45 miles southeast
- North Delta, Mississippi, about 70 miles northeast
- South Delta, Mississippi, about 75 miles southeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.