"Based on our work in the winter, we will be recommending that continued monitoring efforts include camera trapping in the winter to obtain an estimate of sex ratio, in order to determine total population size based on an index that only reflects the number of rooster pheasants present in the landscape. The utility of capture-mark-recapture as a winter monitoring strategy is greatly limited by the time and effort required to trap individual pheasants.
We have almost reached the end of the rooster call surveys and triangulation-based distance sampling for this season. I will be presenting our results at the 20th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society later this year."