Utility of Pheasant call counts and brood counts for monitoring population density and predicting harvest

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 178-188

  Rice, Clifford G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood counts; Call counts; Crowing counts; Harvest prediction; Pheasant; Population monitoring; Roadside surveys; Upland game

Indexed keywords

PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 0038332100     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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