Wiktionary
n. A time of the year during which members of a certain species of animal tend to mate.
Usage examples of "mating season".
At this point no one has ever seen or filmed the mating of humpbacks, so while it would appear that the song has something to do with mating, because it is performed only by males and because it is sung only during the mating season, no one has drawn a direct correlation between the song and mating.
After every mating season back on Home, a handful of females needed surgery to remove impacted eggs.
It's half a year until mating season, and we don't need soothing phrases between us, not at our age.
They've got a mating season-Dawson said so too, and emphasized it-and their mating practice is more reflexive than ours.
Unless they turned out to be females who went into their mating season or males who met a female in her season, they wouldn't worry about such things at all.
Why, do you know they have a mating season like cattle or songbirds, and are impotent all the rest of the year?