This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Legally defined as a 'game animal' under Michigan statute (MI DNR 2026 regs summary glossary), so it is not categorically prohibited the way a protected species is, but it has zero entries in the 2026-27 season-dates table, bag-limit table, or license/fee table. No huntable population/season is currently established.
Gray (Hungarian) partridge is functionally extirpated as a breeding species in Michigan. The species went undetected in both of the state's Breeding Bird Atlas projects (Atlas I, 1983-1988, and Atlas II, 2002-2008), despite having nested in the state historically after its early-1900s introduction. Specimen records place a relict population in Isabella County (central-southern Lower Peninsula), and any surviving population is believed confined to that county, but no current, mappable population is documented anywhere in the state. No huntable population or season currently exists, despite the species remaining a legal game animal on paper. There is no current region to name; Isabella County is the last documented location, not a place to hunt today.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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