| dc.contributor.author | Stackhouse, Jeffery Wilson | |
| dc.description.abstract | Radio telemetry was used to monitor a population of male and female ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus; hereafter pheasant) in southwestern North Dakota to examine pheasant habitat selection. Study objectives were to: 1) determine preferred pheasant winter cover habitat; 2) develop management recommendations to increase pheasant abundance; 3) identify habitat use, survival, and dispersion differences between male and female pheasants; and 4) compare nest-searching techniques to determine most efficient research technique for finding pheasant nests. We captured 191 pheasants, assessed weekly survival using known-fate models in Program MARK and determined home ranges and habitat selection and preference using ArcGIS. We assessed three common methods of nest searching: intense ground searching, chain dragging, and telemetry. Averaging >2000 hectares, our home ranges estimates. Pheasant showed selection toward farmsteads with livestock, large wetlands, and CRP-type grasslands. Pheasant survival estimates for the winters of 2011 and 2012 were 91 and 84 percent, respectively. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Ring-Necked Pheasant: Evaluation of Winter Survival, Habitat Use, and Current Research Methods of Nest Searching | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-17T15:06:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-17T15:06:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26643 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Science (MS) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Natural Resources Management | en_US |
| ndsu.department | School of Natural Resource Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Natural Resources Management | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Geaumont, Benjamin A. | |
| ndsu.advisor | Sedivec, Kevin K. | |
