Gray (Hungarian) partridge

Confirmed absence: no wild population of Hungarian (gray) partridge occurs in Connecticut — same preserve-hunting/dog-training-release basis as chukar, per DEEP's own fact sheet.

Confirmed absence: same Gamebird Breeders Permit / put-and-take basis as chukar; no wild population or survey infrastructure exists.

No standalone gray partridge survey exists; covered only narratively within IDFG's statewide/regional Upland Game Bird Forecast. Re-confirmed via fresh search 2026-08-19: the 2026 edition had not published (2025 edition published Sept 5, 2025); regional pages still show 2025 content. Expected within the next 2-3 weeks.

Gray (Hungarian) partridge is one of three species (with pheasant, bobwhite quail) covered by IDNR's annual Upland Hunting Forecast, built on the spring/summer Upland Bird Route Survey plus the retrospective Hunter Harvest Survey. Re-confirmed via fresh search 2026-08-19: the most recent edition found is still 'The 2025-2026 Upland Hunting Forecast' (published Nov 3, 2025); no 2026-27 edition found. Expected ~early November 2026, close to the Nov 1 season opener.

Gray partridge is one of the three species (with pheasant, bobwhite quail) tracked by Iowa DNR's August Roadside Survey. Only the pre-survey weather-model prediction (July 2026, pheasant-only in its public framing) has published so far -- already captured in ia/ring-necked-pheasant.json per an earlier pass, not repeated here. Re-confirmed via fresh search 2026-08-19: the actual survey results (225 routes, fieldwork Aug 1-15) had not yet posted at iowadnr.gov/pheasantsurvey; multiple 2026 local-news pieces (KCII, KMAland, Bedford Times-Press) confirm fieldwork was still underway as of early-to-mid August. Expected early-to-mid September 2026 (one 2026 source cited "around September 15").

Tracked via MN DNR's August Roadside Survey (167 routes, since 1955), the same combined instrument covering pheasant. 2026 fieldwork (Aug 1-15, 2026) has just closed; a fresh direct fetch of the stable report URL (files.dnr.state.mn.us/recreation/hunting/pheasant/roadside_survey.pdf) confirms it still hosts the 2025 edition (dated 2 September 2025: gray partridge index 2.2 birds/100mi, up slightly from 1.8 in 2024 but 82% below the long-term average) as of 2026-08-19 — not yet overwritten with 2026 results. Expected early September 2026 per the 2025 precedent.

Tracked via Montana FWP's combined annual Upland Game Bird Season Outlook (pheasant, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, gray/Hungarian partridge, chukar, dusky grouse, spruce grouse, ruffed grouse together, by region). The 2025 edition published Aug 20, 2025; a fresh direct fetch of the stable landing page (fwp.mt.gov/hunt/seasons/forecasts) on 2026-08-19 confirms it still shows only the 2025 edition — the 2026 edition appears imminent (one day short of last year's exact publish date).

NGPC's survey instruments (Rural Mail Carrier Survey, bobwhite whistle count) don't track Hungarian partridge at all - confirmed absence of any outlook/forecast infrastructure for this species, any year, mirroring South Dakota's identical gap (per knowledge-base's 2026 outlook data-collection-plan registry).

Joint instrument with chukar -- NDOW's camera-based water-source monitoring is explicitly described in NDOW's own 2025 program notes as “focused on chukar and gray partridge” together, feeding the same annual Nevada Chukar Forecast PDF. Not yet published for 2026 as of this capture (see chukar); expected September 2026.

Regulated jointly with chukar and bobwhite quail under one statewide season/bag line; secondary sources (Project Upland, Ultimate Upland) describe all three as having no naturally-occurring NH population, consistent with the put-and-take pattern already documented for CT/DE/ME/NJ elsewhere in this registry. No NHFG program evidence found across two search passes.

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.

No standalone quantitative index exists for gray (Hungarian) partridge in Oregon; covered only narratively within ODFW's annual Game Bird Hunting Forecast alongside pheasant, quail, and chukar. The 2026-27 edition was not found this pass; expected ~early October 2026 per the 2025-26 precedent (live by Oct 3, 2025).

SD GFP has no quantitative or qualitative pre-season survey for Hungarian partridge - confirmed absence of any outlook/forecast infrastructure for this species, any year (per knowledge-base's 2026 outlook data-collection-plan registry).

Shares UDWR's Upland Game Annual Report with California/Gambel's quail and ring-necked pheasant (retrospective, most recent edition 2024-25); no 2025-26 edition found as of 2026-08-19.

WDFW publishes no discrete, forward-looking pre-season outlook for this species comparable to SD/NE/KS-style flagship documents. The only WA-specific data source found is the retrospective, all-species "Game Status and Trend Report" (535 pages, 2025 edition published Feb 25, 2026), which reports the completed prior season's harvest/status rather than forecasting the upcoming one -- treated as no dedicated forecast program exists, per this plan's established convention for retrospective-only coverage.

No dedicated quantitative survey exists, but WI DNR's active Game Bird (Brood) Observations citizen-science program (Survey123 app, July 1-Aug 31 collection window) explicitly includes gray partridge among the species tracked (confirmed via a direct fetch of the program page on 2026-08-19), feeding internal trend tracking rather than a standalone published report. Breeding Bird Atlas comparisons (19 counties confirmed/probable nesting 1995-2000 vs. just 2 statewide 2015-2019) indicate steep historical decline. Active monitoring, no discrete dated report -- the 2026 collection window (closed Aug 31) has no separate publication to cite.

This species has no standalone quantitative WGFD survey; it is covered only within WGFD's annual regional "Wyoming Hunt Forecast" narrative (8 regions plus statewide sections, historically mid-to-late August -- 2025 edition Aug. 18, 2025). A fresh WebSearch and direct fetch attempt on 2026-08-19 (one day past the 2025 precedent date) found no 2026 edition published on wgfd.wyo.gov -- a third-party aggregator (Ultimate Upland) already shows 2026 species-level ratings (e.g. chukar POOR; sharp-tailed grouse, pheasant POOR-FAIR, drought-driven) but cites no specific dated WGFD document, so this is treated as corroboration only, not confirmation the WGFD narrative itself has published.