Gray (Hungarian) partridge

ND G&F's own spring lek/drumming count survey (published June 25, 2026 as the 'Grouse Surveys' page) covers sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse, prairie chicken, and sage grouse but explicitly does not run a spring index for gray/Hungarian partridge -- the species' real trend data comes instead from the late-summer roadside brood survey (fieldwork through Aug 2026, results typically published late September per the 2025 precedent of Sept 26-29 articles), which had not published as of this check. A WebSearch pass surfaced a Grand Forks Herald 'uptick in Hungarian partridges' quote framed as if current, but a direct fetch confirmed that article's actual publish date is February 18, 2023 (describing the 2022-23 season) -- a stale-attribution catch, not treated as a 2026 finding.