{"id":173973,"date":"2019-06-17T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173973"},"modified":"2019-06-17T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:33:21","slug":"spring-pheasant-count-up-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=173973","title":{"rendered":"Spring Pheasant Count Up from Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28644\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 North Dakota\u2019s spring pheasant population index is up slightly from the same time last year, according to the state Game and Fish Department\u2019s 2019 spring crowing count survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">R.J. Gross, upland game management biologist, said the number of roosters heard crowing this spring was up about 6 percent statewide. The primary regions holding pheasants ranged from up 14 percent in the southeast and up 17 percent in the northwest, to down 8 percent in the southwest. The count in the northeast, which is not a primary region for pheasants, was up 33 percent from last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">\u201cWe are still seeing the effects of the drought of 2017 that resulted in low chick survival,\u201d Gross said. \u201cTypically, a spring pheasant population is composed primarily of yearling roosters with nearly as many 2-year-olds, and currently we have very few 2-year-old roosters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">Gross said hens should be in good physical shape for nesting season, and despite a cool spring, precipitation has helped supplement the residual grasses to produce ample nesting vegetation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">While the spring number is an indicator, Gross said it does not predict what the fall population will look like. Brood surveys, which begin in late July and are completed by September, provide a much better estimate of summer pheasant production and what hunters might expect for a fall pheasant population. \u201cBarring significant storms or prolonged cold temperatures in June and July, we could be set for a good hatch,\u201d Gross said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">Pheasant crowing counts are conducted each spring throughout North Dakota. Observers drive specified 20-mile routes, stopping at predetermined intervals, and counting the number of pheasant roosters heard crowing over a two-minute period during the stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 140%; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 140%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #00071a;\">The number of pheasant crows heard is compared to previous years\u2019 data, providing a trend summary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 North Dakota\u2019s spring pheasant population index is up slightly from the same time last year, according to the state Game and Fish Department\u2019s 2019 spring crowing count survey. R.J. Gross, upland game management biologist, said the number of roosters heard crowing this spring was up about 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173974,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173973\/revisions\/173974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}