North Dakota
Previewing the North Dakota grouse and partridge season
BISMARCK — Hunters are hitting the sector this weekend for the favored grouse and partridge season opener. Mike Anderson tells us what hunters can count on on this week’s phase of North Dakota Open air.
Every spring biologists rely sharp-tailed grouse males dancing on leks to get a inhabitants estimate. And in late July and August, biologists conduct late summer season brood routes on the lookout for particular person birds and hens with chicks.
“This 12 months we discovered that our spring numbers have been down from 2021, we’re having first rate sized broods, chicks per grownup, however the density of birds is down from final 12 months,” says Jesse Kolar, an upland recreation supervisor with the North Dakota Sport and Fish Division.
Sharp-tailed grouse numbers are nonetheless up from the low of 2018, and habitat circumstances are a lot improved from final 12 months.
For extra info on the sharp-tailed grouse and partridge seasons in North Dakota, go to the Sport and Fish Division’s web site at
gf.nd.gov