Michigan’s hunting calendar just got a lot easier to navigate.
Hunterizer has updated the Michigan section of the app with the newly released 2026–2027 waterfowl and furbearer regulations, giving hunters and trappers instant access to current season dates and rules based on species, location, and date.
Michigan hunters can also use Hunterizer’s core “What Can I Hunt Today?” feature to instantly see what species are open in any location in the state—not just today, but for any date they choose throughout the year. Whether planning a September teal hunt, checking a late-season coyote opportunity, or scouting ahead for deer opener, the app puts Michigan’s season information at your fingertips.
The waterfowl and migratory bird update includes:
- Ducks
- Early teal
- Light geese
- Dark geese
- Mergansers
- Wilson’s snipe
- Rails
- Gallinules
The updated furbearer hunting and trapping seasons include:
- Coyote
- Beaver
- Mink
- Muskrat
- Fox
- Bobcat
- Fisher
- River otter
- Raccoon
- Opossum
- Skunk
- Weasel
- Badger
- Marten
Michigan trappers and predator hunters should also note several management structure updates in the new regulations. The state introduced or refined management seasons for beaver, coyote, muskrat, and raccoon, continuing efforts to manage these species with more targeted frameworks depending on season timing and harvest objectives.
Hunterizer users can now see not only when these seasons open and close, but also the practical details hunters actually need in the field. That includes:
- Zone maps for all supported species, now built directly into the app
- Hunter orange requirements, so users can quickly check visibility rules by season and species
- After-harvest requirements, including reporting, tagging, and other compliance information where applicable
Michigan’s 2026–2027 game animal seasons were already updated earlier in Hunterizer, including:
- Deer
- Bear
- Elk
- Turkey
Turkey hunters may also appreciate a simpler season framework, as Michigan’s turkey zone structure has become easier to navigate compared to prior years, with fewer zones than older configurations.
Hunterizer also keeps non-game species with year-round open seasons current, including species such as Russian boar and porcupine, so hunters can quickly confirm those opportunities as well.
More Michigan updates are still coming.
Hunterizer plans to publish the 2026–2027 Small Game Bird regulations (including species like pheasant, bobwhite quail, and ruffed grouse) as soon as the Michigan DNR releases them. The same goes for Small Game Mammals, including cottontail rabbit, snowshoe hare, squirrel, and other species.
For Michigan hunters who move between duck marshes, predator stands, deer blinds, turkey woods, and traplines, the growing patchwork of regulations can be difficult to track. Hunterizer’s goal is to make that simpler: show what’s legal to hunt today, where you are, with the maps and rule details needed to stay compliant.
The Hunterizer app is available for iPhone in the App Store and for Android devices in Google Play. For more information, visit Hunterizer.
