Kansas requires non-toxic shot for hunting ALL migratory game birds except dove and woodcock. This includes ducks, geese, coots, mergansers, rails, sandhill cranes, and snipe. Legal shot is steel, bismuth-tin, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-iron, tungsten matrix, tungsten-nickle-iron, tungsten-ironnickel- tin, and steel shot coated with copper, nickel, zinc chromate, or zinc chloride.

It is illegal to possess lead shot while hunting waterfowl or hunting in a Non-Toxic-Shot-Only area. “Possession" means that lead shot cannot be in a hunter’s gun, pockets, or in reach while in the process of hunting. Lead shot left in a vehicle is not considered “in possession.”

NON-TOXIC-SHOT-ONLY AREAS

In these areas, non-toxic shot is the only shotgun load allowed, whether ducks, upland game, or other small game are being hunted.

• Benedictine Bottoms WA
• Cheyenne Bottoms WA
• Cherokee Lowlands WA
• Flint Hills NWR
• Gurley Salt Marsh WA
• Herron Playa WA
• Isabel Wetlands WA
• Jamestown WA
• Kirwin NWR
• Marais des Cygnes NWR
• Marais des Cygnes WA
• McPherson Wetlands WA
• Neosho WA
• Otter Creek WA
• Quivira NWR, Slate Creek WA
• Stein Playa WA
• Talmo Marsh WA
• Texas Lake WA
• Wild Turkey Playa WA
• other areas as posted

NOTE: Birds such as pelicans, cormorants, grebes, herons, gulls, and shorebirds not listed in this brochure are illegal to take or possess under federal and state law.