Missouri Coverage
Mingo Basin Duck Migration Forecast
Duck Creek, Mingo and Otter Slough where the Ozarks drop into the lowlands. Greentree reservoirs and cypress sloughs that fill in December and hold.
See today’s live scoreAll of MO
Season dates: Missouri duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Mingo Basin is
Mingo Basin is drawn from 9 counties in Missouri: Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Perry, Ripley, Ste. Genevieve, Stoddard and Wayne. 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 Mingo Basin peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the mallard peak here around late December. Mingo Basin carries its own mallard timing rather than the statewide curve, because the season here runs on a different clock from the rest of the state. 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 Mingo Basin
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Havana, IL, about 215 miles north, Spring Valley, IL, about 290 miles north and Muscatine, IA, about 295 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Mingo Basin
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KPAH, the National Weather Service radar at Paducah, about 80 miles east 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 Mingo Basin 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 Missouri
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- The Bootheel, about 50 miles southeast
- The Confluence, about 105 miles north
- The Ozarks, about 110 miles west
- Missouri River Valley, about 185 miles northwest
- Northeast and the Upper Mississippi, about 205 miles northwest
- West Central and the Osage, about 205 miles west
- North Missouri, about 250 miles northwest
- Northwest Missouri, about 315 miles northwest
Across the state line
- Northeast Delta, Arkansas, about 100 miles south
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Missouri Department of Conservation. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.