This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Legal game bird (listed as 'Chukar Partridge'), bag combined with Gray and Black Francolin.2026-27 DOFAW season announcement not yet published as of 2026-08-18. 2025-26 reference: Nov 1, 2025 - Jan 25, 2026. Re-checked live 2026-08-18 (barred-dove check covers the whole state, since DOFAW issues one combined game-bird season announcement for all species): still not published. DOFAW's last 5 years of announcements all came out in October, so this isn't overdue yet — re-check in/after October 2026 rather than re-researching each species separately before then. Re-checked 2026-08-19: still not published (dlnr.hawaii.gov direct WebFetch blocked by this environment's egress policy tonight; WebSearch found no 2026-27 combined announcement -- only the 2025-26 archive and unrelated turkey/stamp releases turned up; one search result surfaced specific-looking 2026-27 dates with no dated primary source behind them, treated as unverified/unusable per no-fabrication rule). Re-checked 2026-08-20: still not published (dlnr.hawaii.gov, WebSearch-surfaced third-party mirrors, and direct WebFetch all blocked/unavailable via this environment's egress policy tonight, same as 2026-08-19; WebSearch found no 2026-27 combined game-bird announcement -- only the 2025-26 archive, unrelated turkey-season and stamp-contest releases turned up; still consistent with DOFAW's October-publication pattern, not overdue).
Researched independently from the separate, plan-3-tracked season-announcement blocker (a distinct concern: hunting dates/regs, not population monitoring). No DOFAW population-survey/forecast program of any kind was found for chukar: no lek/crow/whistle-count survey, no pre-season forecast narrative. DOFAW's game-bird management model here is structurally different from mainland states -- self-sustaining wild populations plus GMA-specific stocking targets set at Game Management Advisory Commission (GMAC) meetings (the Oahu Game Bird Rearing Program raises chukar and pheasant specifically for release at Kuaokala GMA, where habitat can't sustain them naturally), not a population census. Checked: GMAC meeting minutes/agendas, DLNR legislative reports to the Hawaii Legislature (FY22 edition read in full -- purely administrative, no bird population data), DLNR news search, and general web search; the only population-data infrastructure found is retrospective Pittman-Robertson harvest-by-GMA reporting (since 1946, compiled for federal excise-tax accounting, not a public-facing pre-season outlook).