[wisb] Re: Guidelines for Totals
- From: "Peter A. Fissel" <pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:39:46 -0600
Well, unless it's changed, anyone can get Pheasants to raise and
release, of both sexes - same with Bobwhite. It's not just the DNR and
Pheasants Forever doing the stocking. I had a group of five Pheasants
on the side of the road while doing the Hustisford CBC last month - one
rooster and four hens - that were clearly not wild birds. It was next
to a State Wildlife Area, too.
Peter Fissel
Madison WI
On 2/12/2013 8:18 PM, Rowan Stamm wrote:
> Replying to what Peter said. You can usually determine if game birds are wild
> or stocked by thinking about where you are and how they fly. For example I
> was walking in the woods surrounding my house and I flushed three Bobwhites
> as far as I know no one is releasing Bobwhites in my yard or near here but if
> you were at Brooklyn Wildlife Center and you flushed a male Pheasant it is
> almost surely a stocked bird. If, on the other hand you flush a female
> pheasant it is almost surely a wild bird because they don't release female
> pheasants. I definitely agree with you about Chukar I don't think I would
> ever count one if it was in WI. Another good way to tell stocked and wild
> pheasants apart is stocked birds have shorter stiffer tails and wild bird
> have long streaming tail. You also usually won't see stocked Pheasants from
> January- October because they can't make it in the wild.
>
> Rowan Stamm
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> On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:50 AM, "Peter A. Fissel"<pfissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Where it gets particularly dicey is game birds that are commonly raised
>> and released, but that also have small "wild" populations. Bobwhite are
>> especially problematic. I'm always really reluctant to count them on
>> the list I submit to WSO, except in those few cases where I've had one
>> flush right away. I'd count a Gray Partridge out in a field without
>> hesitation, but not a Chukar or Guinea Fowl. Pheasants - who knows? I
>> usually see enough each year, including some behaving in what I would
>> consider a "wild" manner, that I count them. (A group of them standing
>> by the side of the road and not moving as I drive by, which I've had
>> several times on CBCs, it not what I would consider "wild" behavior. On
>> the other hand, I've had male Ruffed Grouse refuse to yield the road
>> more than once, but I'm not aware of anyone releasing those...)
>>
>> I'm just imagining that couple that Bob mentioned having Flamingos on
>> their Wisconsin state list - the Vilas Zoo in Madison has those, as well
>> as several other South American species in the tropical aviary. Maybe
>> I'll start counting Peacocks from now on...
>>
>> Peter Fissel
>> Madison WI
>>
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