Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

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• Statewide Habitat Fragmentation and Habitat Inventory Assessment for California, Gambel's and Mountain Quails

  The goal of this project is to provide a quantitative basis for prioritizing areas for quail population and habitat conservation on a state-wide basis for California. To achieve this, we will use a hierarchical approach with three spatial scales: state, county, and home range to link the broad-scale population dynamics of three species of wild quail in California to statewide landscape and monitoring metrics.

• Identifying the Influences of Fire, Climate Change, and Habitat on California’s Population of Mountain Quail through Time to Inform Population Management

  This project will develop a workflow for processing existing audio data to develop mountain quail occupancy and abundance estimates and trends from 2010- 2021. This information is important to inform data driven Mountain Quail management approaches, including setting harvest quotas and guiding habitat management and restoration.

• Determination of Population Structure in Mountain Quail to Facilitate Management

  The California Conservation Genomics Project has whole genome sequences from 29 California samples of Mountain Quail. This project will generate additional quail whole genome sequences in priority areas to guide management in California.

• Development of a Survey Protocol for Quail and Doves in Relation to Landscape Level Habitat Assessments

  We propose to develop a monitoring strategy for quail and dove species residing in the Sonoran, Colorado, and Mohave Deserts, the Great Basin and other arid highland ecosystems where large scale habitat monitoring programs (AIM and NRI) are operational.

• Habitat distribution modeling for the Sooty Grouse at its southern limit on the north coast of California

  In this project, Game Bird Research Group proposes to attain accurate coordinate locations for a sample of territorial male Sooty Grouse throughout Mendocino, Glenn, Lake, and Sonoma counties and use them to create a habitat suitability model that predicts the locations of additional breeding sites throughout the region.

• The Ring-necked Pheasant (Pasianus colchicus) in California: Assessing Status and Factors Related to Population Trends

  This project will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of available information on pheasants and factors possibly related to population dynamics, and where data are adequate, will evaluate the relationship between pheasant populations and possible limiting factors.