Effectiveness of Territorial Mapping of Pheasants in Central Great Plains States

Zach Hess Author

08/03/2021 Added

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This is a technique research project assessing the value of using territorial mapping as a habitat selection survey methods during pheasant mating seasons. This project focuses on the region of Central Great Plains states like Nebraska that deal with so much privately-own land.

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[00:00:01.650]Hi everyone. My name is Zach Hess.
[00:00:04.230]I am a student at the applied wildlife ecology and spatial movement lab.
[00:00:09.330]And I'm also a PreVet student here at UNL with the college of Casner
[00:00:14.250]and in the school of natural resources.
[00:00:19.910]My study is a technique study.
[00:00:22.970]That is the effectiveness of territorial mapping and the great points.
[00:00:28.100]One is territory mapping. Well,
[00:00:29.510]territory mapping is a method of assessing
[00:00:34.730]habitat selection for,
[00:00:37.800]for male pheasants and female presence. During the meeting,
[00:00:40.760]soon for old methods include radio telemetry and
[00:00:45.620]crow counts. These are good methods for certain reasons,
[00:00:49.640]but they may fall short for a few others radio telemetry while it
[00:00:54.560]is good,
[00:00:54.860]where you can find exactly where the male presence or is very time extensive,
[00:00:59.630]hard to do a year-round and is very difficult to establish. I mean,
[00:01:04.820]the funding to actually support the equipment needed to do new reduced,
[00:01:09.640]and where's your CRO counts,
[00:01:11.150]or while you can do them year round are difficult to establish where
[00:01:16.040]exactly the feminists are because you only listened to in here the direction of
[00:01:20.570]which the council pros are coming from,
[00:01:23.810]but not exactly where the pheasant is and what territory the fences are using.
[00:01:30.380]The history of my methods started in 1983 with Dr.
[00:01:35.900]NW Ridley in Dr. Da hill, who
[00:01:41.420]wanted to find a way do establish social organization and
[00:01:46.160]study the Hiram of behavior of male pheasants and nephews.
[00:01:53.060]This continued with your not to Jorgensen in Sweden
[00:01:58.220]for female pheasants and Dr.
[00:02:02.150]Dre cot and John Carroll with Britain.
[00:02:07.430]The methods in this area are very or simple.
[00:02:11.930]I started while you go into a place where I had grow camp,
[00:02:15.740]I would hear listen for crows. When I heard crows in a certain area,
[00:02:19.340]I found a crossroads and did a scanning of a half mile by half
[00:02:24.170]mile square and looking for presence. Once a pheasant is found,
[00:02:28.970]I that I established a map around that area.
[00:02:33.800]Now I would identify that pheasant either by a female or by two varied types of
[00:02:38.570]males,
[00:02:39.140]a non territorial male and territorial male terrorists were males typically have
[00:02:44.780]females.
[00:02:45.260]And we were trying to actively draw females by growing in the season between
[00:02:49.280]April and may. We decided to do may because of the classes were done in art.
[00:02:54.110]I was more available to do my research though,
[00:02:57.620]though it had a restriction because it, but it was on the backside of that.
[00:03:01.210]Maybe, excuse me,
[00:03:03.820]note the picture on the left,
[00:03:06.670]where it denotes the map of hap of charger terror,
[00:03:10.720]male territories. The notation on the map is simple.
[00:03:16.510]Any number with an age is the amount of females that are seen by themselves.
[00:03:20.740]Any number with an N is a as the number of non term non
[00:03:25.870]territorial males seen any listing of a,
[00:03:30.770]uh, of a territory.
[00:03:32.920]Male was marked as a T and then any number added to that is the number of
[00:03:37.690]females with, with him. That will be his hierarchy.
[00:03:43.840]These are satellite images of, uh,
[00:03:46.990]locations of which I am actually seeing males in
[00:03:52.300]male pheasants.
[00:03:54.880]These are the only three locations in my whole mouth search.
[00:03:57.940]Now I'm actually seeing, you know, this is very difficult because I have,
[00:04:01.600]I did not have much land access and I can only see from the road.
[00:04:07.420]However, I did form three distinct
[00:04:12.190]maps from either areas.
[00:04:14.680]Each map is more marked by edging and in the show,
[00:04:19.790]it is noted in notes of what is actually certain type of
[00:04:24.730]cover and where the actual meals are. I have,
[00:04:29.830]I've also marked the dates of work when I found them.
[00:04:33.010]Each of these males were found from 6 45 to nine 30 in the
[00:04:37.900]morning when I was out scanning from mouse.
[00:04:42.640]Now we are going to get into the main issues with my
[00:04:46.930]data results. In this technique,
[00:04:50.260]land accessibility is a very,
[00:04:52.930]very large problem due to only having eight,
[00:04:58.900]eight sighting. She can see the problem with that. However, when accessibility,
[00:05:02.380]accessibility, foremost studies,
[00:05:04.270]don't like what Dre cot and w Ridley
[00:05:09.010]back in Britain have many females and me over 50
[00:05:14.590]pheasants seen because they are in a place where you can go on for witness
[00:05:18.490]state,
[00:05:19.210]and you can walk out of state and have your whole territories found
[00:05:24.190]and multiple locations.
[00:05:25.420]They do not have to fight a problem where you have to go have many different
[00:05:29.800]land orders that have to work with as well as you have play
[00:05:34.740]males to actually select and see Nebraska has as a lower population as it
[00:05:39.520]is. And you have to work with many landowners to jump from field, to field,
[00:05:44.080]to get multiple land access. So land access is important
[00:05:49.510]and is very restrictive to do the process. Also,
[00:05:54.520]another drawback to the territorial mapping is you need the right conditions.
[00:05:59.170]I could not tell you to room at when it was raining. Males do not,
[00:06:03.790]can not come out and will not grow if it is raining.
[00:06:06.670]And therefore we had a whole week where I could not collect data because there
[00:06:10.840]was rain all that week.
[00:06:14.160]It was also restricted to only doing during meeting season.
[00:06:17.290]That is from March to may. I wish we shifted just a may do to clap
[00:06:23.680]class schedule still in effect up until end of April.
[00:06:29.140]Therefore my debt, my dad research time was very restricted.
[00:06:35.440]Now I did take notes on when I sold nails and what were the conditions around
[00:06:40.030]this time? I found that they were best growing from 6 45 to nine 30.
[00:06:45.190]And they were also best found when they had rained the night before.
[00:06:49.660]It was still partly cloudy.
[00:06:50.950]And there was still enough to do on the ground where you could walk through the
[00:06:53.560]grass and your in your shoes would, and you could feel the water on the road.
[00:06:58.900]Recce this allows for effective time where mail.
[00:07:02.560]It is not too hot for male slick Crow and is not too wet or
[00:07:07.870]raining for them to, to restrict them from actually finding females.
[00:07:12.910]These are important conditions to know if you're going to continue this
[00:07:17.020]technique and we were actually going to alter it so they can work for Nebraska.
[00:07:21.960]Okay. The future outlook,
[00:07:26.640]the future outlook of this study is simple.
[00:07:30.240]We need to have more land access,
[00:07:33.240]and we can do this by using partnering with non-pro a
[00:07:38.230]nonprofit organization, site notches,
[00:07:40.470]and non-government organizations such as spasm forever.
[00:07:45.360]Friends forever is an organization that allows CRP land to be developed
[00:07:50.280]for Besant habitat.
[00:07:51.990]They would be a great organization to partner with and develop land access with
[00:07:56.700]good landowners.
[00:07:58.770]It's gone back conditions with taking notes on each conditioner,
[00:08:01.300]what we'll find or found we can easily replicate
[00:08:06.180]conditions and therefore continue while researching for
[00:08:10.950]better results and better use of our time. Focusing on those conditions.
[00:08:18.750]I would also like to acknowledge John Carroll and Andy little
[00:08:23.850]for advising me in my research and helping me eat,
[00:08:29.430]do this opportunity to improve pheasant habitat and develop a technique that
[00:08:33.630]would be the best for wildlife biologists in Nebraska.

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