Division of Fish & Wildlife

The Wildlife Section manages nearly 50,000 acres of land in Delaware - land that provides habitat for a multitude of wild plants, animals, insects and rare species of all kinds.This web page directs you to specific information: from hunting licenses, seasons and other game-related information, to key wildlife and habitat conservation and education initiatives, like the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program and the Delaware Shorebird Monitoring Project, among many others.

Information for hunters

• UPDATE: Straight-wall, pistol-caliber rifles allowed for deer hunting in Delaware 
  
  

• Please click on the image below to be taken to the Hunter & Trapper Registration System

• Please click on the image below to learn more about Wildlife Program services and funding

More information for hunters

• Delaware's White-tailed Deer
• Chronic Wasting Disease awareness
• Waterfowl Stamp Program/Contest
• Get F&W Email Updates
• National Wildlife Refuges
• Bombay Hook
• Prime Hook
• Report Fishing Violations
  1-800-523-3336
• Report Rabies Exposure
  302-744-4995
• Sunrise/Sunset
• Tide Tables
• www.flyways.us (U.S. and North American waterfowl management web site)

FAQs

Please click here to learn more!

More habitat and wildlife management information

• Abandoned Wildlife
• Avian influenza awareness
• A.I. factsheet from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• H5N1 Survey for Delaware duck hunters
• Becoming an Outdoors Woman program 
• Coyotes in Delaware
• Dead Animals on the Road
• New Castle County:
       302-323-1111
• Kent County:
       302-739-1111
• Sussex County:
        302-855-1111 
• Education Programs
• Endangered Species List
• Green Infrastructure Initiative
• Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators in Delaware
• Open Space Program
• Phragmites Control Program 
• To Report Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Strandings 
• Volunteer!
• Wildlife Habitat Enhancement