This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Legal game bird under HAR §13-122-6, includes White-winged Pheasant color/subspecies variants (Common, Kansas, Jumbo, Manchurian, Blue). DOFAW's annual season announcement (published each October historically) had not been issued as of 2026-08-18; the 2025-26 cycle (most recent published) ran Nov 1, 2025 - Jan 25, 2026, cocks only, weekends + state holidays on most public units (some Hawai'i Island units and all private land also got Wed/Thu access). Hunting of female pheasants allowed only at Kekaha GMA (Kauai) and Kuaokala GMA (Oahu) put-and-take systems, counted against bag limit; public hunters asked to avoid hens in January. Rule-book default formula (not applied in practice) is 1st Sat Nov through MLK Day/3rd Sun Jan whichever later. 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 ring-necked pheasant: no lek/crow/whistle-count survey, no pre-season forecast narrative. Pheasant is the clearest put-and-take case of the five HI combos: the Oahu Game Bird Rearing Program raises pheasant (and chukar) from brooder stage for release at Kuaokala GMA (habitat there can't sustain them naturally), Kekaha and Kuaokala GMAs run explicit put-and-take systems for hens, and per-GMA release targets (e.g. ~500 pheasants at Kauai, ~350 at East Hawaii per an Oct 2025 DOFAW update) are set as management inputs at Game Management Advisory Commission (GMAC) meetings rather than derived from a wild-population census. Checked: GMAC meeting minutes/agendas, DLNR legislative reports (FY22 edition read in full -- purely administrative, no bird population data), DLNR news search, and general web search.