Kansas Coverage
Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw Duck Migration Forecast
Tuttle Creek, Milford and Perry, the Kansas River through Topeka and the Missouri along the Doniphan bluffs. The deepest water in the state and the last of it to go.
See today’s live scoreAll of KS
Season dates: Kansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw is
Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw is drawn from 17 counties in Kansas: Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee and Wyandotte. 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 Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around late October. 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 Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Falls City, NE, about 65 miles northeast, Fairbury, NE, about 80 miles northwest and Lincoln, NE, about 110 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KTWX, the National Weather Service radar at Topeka, about 18 miles south of the region’s weather point. That is close enough for the radar to sample the air over the region itself. 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 Northeast Reservoirs and the Kaw 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 Kansas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- East Central Lakes, about 65 miles southeast
- North Central Reservoirs, about 115 miles west
- Southeast Timber, about 125 miles south
- South Central and the Arkansas, about 125 miles southwest
- Cheyenne Bottoms, about 140 miles west
- Quivira and the Rattlesnake, about 150 miles southwest
- Northwest High Plains, about 235 miles west
- Southwest Playas, about 250 miles southwest
Across the state line
- Northwest Missouri, Missouri, about 85 miles northeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Kansas Wildlife and Parks. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.