North Dakota's roadside brood surveys conducted in late July and August indicate pheasant numbers were up, while gray partridge and sharp-tailed grouse numbers were down, the Game and Fish Department ...
"Hunters should expect to find similar numbers to last year, with a higher proportion of adult pheasants in the population, smaller partridge coveys and slightly fewer sharptail," Gross said.
“Hunters should expect to find similar numbers to last year, with a higher proportion of adult pheasants in the population, smaller partridge coveys and slightly fewer sharptail,” Gross sai ...
The reproduction this year might not be quite as good, so the coveys might be smaller, but there still should be a lot of birds out there from the adult carryover that we had last year and years ...
smaller partridge coveys and slightly fewer sharptail.” North Dakota's pheasant population has been steadily recovering from devastating drought in 2021. And the number of roosters heard ...