\u201cWe forecast things to get worse this spring, and everyone knew that after last year’s drought, it was pretty severe. That’s what we thought with Sharptails, the adults started out lower, so our total grouse per mile in our breeding surveys reflected that they were lower. Then the nesting, we would hope that looking at the ground now everyone thought we were just going to have a booming crop of birds, but it was a little late. Our early nesting was probably cut off; It was probably the snow storms in April and then the very wet and cool weather we had in the first part of May,\u201d explains Kolar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Hungarian partridge, also known as gray partridge, is holding steady and even improving in some areas of the state as conditions lined up for a small rebound. Accustomed to drier conditions and able to forage in areas of lesser cover, partridge showed up slightly more in roadside surveys this summer, and their abundance also expanded eastward. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis year, for the first time, the prairie pothole region, that second district from the west, reached into the Southwest and had as high a number as the Southwest. A whole third of western North Dakota has numbers as high as we’ve had for 15 years for partridge. Then even further east, the numbers looked pretty good, and they’ve been going up for five or six years in a row now,\u201d says Kolar regarding the results of the summer 2022 road count for Hungarian Partridge in the state. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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While in the late 1980s and early 1990s North Dakota survey results were as high as 35 partridges per 100 miles traveled, they dropped sharply in the early 1990s. At this time, overall, the state is at a level of about 12 per 100 miles, or about a third of what it was three decades ago, but even that number today is considered good based on the recent history of the small birds of the Highlands. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“We know that the dry conditions, the fallow fields that have disappeared and some of those combinations of things and some alignment of the stars that happened in the late 1980s I think really benefited the partridge,” Kolar posits for the fall. of partridge in the last three decades and added: \u201cCertainly those CRP plantations may be good for pheasants for years three to six, but I think for partridges they are really good for years one to five. So when the CRP planting is just starting and it looks a little weedy and rough around the edges, that’s what those partridges really liked.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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For the opener coming up, Kolar recommends that the best thing for hunters to focus on when chasing grouse and partridge is to think about where the water is today and where it was several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs we get drier this fall, think about not just where the water and riparian areas are now, but imagine where those wet and riparian areas were in August, and that’s where most of the hens were taking their chicks. to find bugs, so look for those areas and they should be somewhere close to there.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Hunting seasons for North Dakota sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge, ruffed grouse and tree squirrel open on Saturday, September 10. Hunting hours are half an hour before sunrise to sunset.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the completion of roadside breeding surveys for the North Dakota highland game, and the opening of the sharp-tailed grouse and partridge season set for this Saturday, hunters may find a better crop of younger grouse compared to 2021 and more ptarmigan are likely to come their way this fall. North Dakota Department of Game … <\/p>\n
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