Sandhill Crane Harvest and Hunter Activity in the Central Flyway during the 2003-2004 Hunting Season

摘要

A mail questionnaire survey was conducted in nine Central Flyway States to monitor the harvest of Sandhill Cranes ('Grus canadensis') during the 2003-2004 hunting season. Permits were issued to 58,646 hunters and an estimated 8,315 individuals actively hunted Sandhill Cranes. Fifty-six of these active hunters were successful in bagging one or more cranes. They harvested an estimated 18,335 cranes with an additional 1,628 birds reported as downed but lost for a total kill estimate of 19,963, up 22 percent from that of the previous season.