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Pheasants prey on hamraay
"I expect this quail season to pretty much be a
Saturday marks the opening of Nebraska's 68th , reflection of last year, Mitchell said.
consecutive pheasant season. From the first two-
day open season in 1G27, to thh year's three-month
hunt, the rinrj-necked pheasant re!ns king as Nebras
ka's favorite came tird.
The pheasant has experienced many population
ups and down in its brief Nebraska history, said JCen
Johnson, chief of the wildlife division for the Ne
braska Game and Parks Commission.
Populations peaked in the early '50s when Ne
braska had 1 2 million to 1 5 million pheasants in the
state. Since then, there has been a steady decline
because of changes in agricultural practices, John
son said.
Jim llitcheH, game commission upland game spe
cialist, estimated that the pheasant population is
down 10 to 15 percent from last year.
; lie said the southwest pertien cfthe ctate, includ
ing the tlsCcsk ares, b ds-rm CD to id psrcsnt; the
northeast down 25 percsr.t the sandhills up slightly
and the popular Alliance area b pretty fyim."
"Our estimates are based ssldy on rural mail car
riersun'lIitchellsaid'ThesouthweststClhas a
fairly high density of pheasants, despite being down
In numbers, ilail carriers on the averse saw 4 12
pheasants per mile there and only 1 12 per mile in
the Alance area." '.
ilitchell said pheasant numbers are down
because their early nesting cubits were a failure
because of rainy and eeli weather ti Hay and early
ifhen pheasant wO try to "nest ce-eral tfees if
her first next is destroyed before the cr3 hatch,"
ltchtil saiJL "Dut tT;er the cr5 b-tch if the nest
As always, the best quail hunting win be along
river drainages and in the southeast portion of the
state. The northeast offers another game bird, the
Hungarian partridge.
The rural carriers say that they (partridges) are
up a little but we really dont have much information
on them," Mitchell said. There were only about
3,600 of them harvested last year, while the phea
sant harvest was 878,000 and the quail 572,000."
Nebraska's habitat plan, implemented in 1977, is
providing more opportunities for sportsmen to
hunt upland game, ilitchell said, but isnt extensive
enough yet to have any impact on total harvest
The Payment-In-Kind program had no beneficial
elTect on wildlife, Johnson said.
Dsn end pessessien Units for quail and Hungarian
part '2 trs Cree and nine respectively end six
is destrc"ed very rare!: wU ihe try tgsin.
He said the ceeena and.thd r.ater.e3 people see
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liens dent rai:e more than one brood a year, he .
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cut the summer. Csail numbers ere barieeTy the
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