A Proposed Comparison of Fall Roadside Pheasant Counts and Flushing Rates

Authors

E. L. Kozicky, Iowa State CollegeFollow
H. O. Hartley, Iowa State College
G. O. Hendrickson, Iowa State CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Although the fall roadside pheasant census (Bennett and Hendrickson, 1938) has reflected the fall pheasant population from an administrative standpoint for the past 17 years within the primary range in Iowa (Kozicky, et al., 1952), there still exist the problems of correlating these roadside counts to actual populations or flushing rates. Inasmuch as we do not have any known method of obtaining exact numbers of birds for a given ·section of land at the present time, we cannot develop a method of interpreting the roadside count as reflecting a mean number of birds per acre in the primary pheasant range within a, specified confidence limits. However, it may be possible to relate the index obtained from the roadside count to birds flushed per hour on a section of land. The evaluation would be of assistance to administrators and sportsmen alike. The sportsmen are interested in knowing just how many birds they can expect to flush in an hour of hunting, based on roadside counts, and the administrator would like confirmation on the correlation, if any, between the roadside count and flushing rates.

Publication Date

1954

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

61

Issue

1

First Page

528

Last Page

534

Copyright

©1954 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Kozicky, E. L.; Hartley, H. O.; and Hendrickson, G. O. (1954) "A Proposed Comparison of Fall Roadside Pheasant Counts and Flushing Rates," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 61(1), 528-534.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol61/iss1/73