This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Ohio Administrative Code Rule 1501:31-15-02 (effective July 6, 2026) makes it unlawful to hunt/take Hungarian partridge at any time except: within a commercial bird shooting preserve, within a bona fide dog training grounds, during an authorized field trial, or with written authorization from the chief of the division of wildlife. Does not appear on ODNR's official 2026-27 season chart at all - effectively no wild-huntable population/season for the general public.
Gray (Hungarian) partridge has no general public hunting season and no wild population anywhere in Ohio today — the same closed shape as New York's gray partridge record, and for the same underlying reason. Ohio Administrative Code Rule 1501:31-15-02 makes it unlawful to take Hungarian partridge except on a commercial shooting preserve, a bona fide dog-training ground, an authorized field trial, or with written chief-of-division authorization — a pen-raised-bird-only framework, not a wild-population one. Historical introduction attempts failed outright: 1915 plantings in northwestern Ohio produced birds that shifted north into southern Michigan's Lenawee County by 1916-17 rather than establishing in Ohio, and a separate 1915 liberation near Buckeye Lake (central Ohio) was also a failure. Populations that were once widespread in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan were all lost by the 1950s.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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