Nevada

Nevada's quail, chukar, and gray (Hungarian) partridge share one general season, mid-October through the first week of February, preceded by a youth-only week in late September. Within that shared calendar, each species holds its own slice of the state. Chukar is thickest across northern and central Nevada, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Pershing, and Washoe counties, tracked individually by the state's annual brood survey, plus a separate population in the south around Clark, Lincoln, and Nye counties (shared with Gambel's quail). Gray partridge, sharing chukar's bag, is confined to a much narrower slice of the state's northeastern corner: the area east of the Santa Rosa Range and the Independence Mountains, and public land north of Wells. California quail holds the western third of the state, the Sierra Nevada and Carson Range foothills and the irrigated valleys along the Truckee, Carson, and Walker rivers, with Lahontan Valley and Mason Valley called out specifically. Gambel's quail is the geographic mirror in the far south, the Mojave Desert corner of Clark, Lincoln, and Nye counties, especially along the Muddy, Virgin, and Colorado river corridors. Mountain quail is the most widely scattered of the four, present in isolated mountain ranges across nearly the entire state outside Clark County, with a confirmed breeding population in the Carson Range and a longer historical presence further east in ranges like the Toiyabe and Santa Rosa.

Nevada regulates dusky, sooty, and ruffed grouse together under one combined bag limit across thirteen named counties, September 1 through the end of December, but the three occupy genuinely different mountain systems within that shared zone. Dusky grouse holds the state's isolated Great Basin ranges in the central and northeastern counties, roughly from Austin east to the Utah line. Sooty grouse is confined to the opposite edge of the state, the Sierra Nevada's eastern fringe along the California border, in ranges like the Carson Range, the Sweetwaters, and the Whites. Ruffed grouse's own range is the narrowest of the three, centered on the aspen and riparian drainages of the Jarbidge Mountains in northern Elko County, the one corner of the shared zone where a hunter could realistically find all three species. Greater sage-grouse hunting is legal only in three agency-drawn areas carved out of the much larger sagebrush range the bird occupies statewide: a nine-day zone across north-central to east-central Nevada, a shorter two-day zone spanning a separate set of units further north and south, and a draw-only hunt on Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in the extreme northwest corner, the only one of the three open to nonresidents. Ring-necked pheasant is legal statewide, cocks only, through November, but the real population is limited to a handful of irrigated agricultural pockets, the Fallon/Lahontan Valley area, the Lovelock and Humboldt River basin, and Mason Valley, plus a small, long-stocked population at Overton Wildlife Management Area in the far south. Himalayan snowcock, introduced from Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, exists nowhere else in North America outside the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range near Elko, where the season runs September through November and the hunt area is restricted to Elko and White Pine counties.