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Efficiency of Pointing Dogs in Locating Northern Bobwhite Coveys
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| Author | Sisson, Diana C. Stribling, H. Lee Speake, Dan W. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | We studied the efficiency of pointing dogs in locating coveys of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) using radiotelemetry from 1992-1997 on 2 private hunting plantations in southwest Georgia. During these 5 hunting seasons, 169 hunts generated data on 838 "encounters" with 254 separate radio-marked coveys. Pointing dogs located 53% of the available coveys, 25% of which were never seen by the hunters due to evasive behavior by the birds. An additional 12% of encountered coveys were seen by the hunters even though they were never located by the dogs. This resulted in the hunters seeing a total of just over half (53%) and shooting into approximately one-third (32%) of the total radio-marked coveys they encountered. An evaluation of "false pointing" was conducted by examining cases when dogs pointed radio-marked coveys that were never seen by the hunters. Most (58%) of these unproductive points were caused by coveys running away from pointing dogs, but were also attributed to wild flushes (28%) and pointed coveys that held tight and refused to flush (14%). The percentage of radio-marked coveys seen by hunters was highly variable from day-to-day (x = 53%, range = 0-100%), but fairly consistent between years (x = 53%, range = 40-63% ). Information obtained using pointing dogs appears to be more practical for measuring population trends than it is as a census technique. Citation: Sisson, D.C., H. L. Stribling, and D.W. Speake. 2000. Efficiency of pointing dogs in locating northern bobwhite coveys. Page 109 in L.A. Brennan, W.E. Palmer, L.W. Burger, Jr., and T.L. Pruden (eds.). Quail IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Quail Symposium. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL. 109 1 Sisson et al.: Efficiency of Pointing Dogs in Locating Northern Bobwhite Coveys Published by Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange, 2000 |
| Starting Page | 25 |
| Ending Page | 25 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1142&context=nqsp&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
