No Closed Season
Practically non-existent in the wild except by private stocking; classified as a legal game bird by statute with no closed season. Source: eRegulations, VFWD's linked digest partner; VFWD's own page confirms near-absence/stocking status but doesn't itself publish the 'no closed season' detail.
No wild population exists to map. VFWD's own upland-game-birds page groups chukar with bobwhite quail in one sentence, stating that both are practically non-existent except by private stocking. Chukar is a Eurasian, arid-habitat species poorly suited to Vermont's cool, wet, forested climate, and independent sourcing describes Vermont's chukar presence as a small, isolated, stocking-derived occurrence, not a self-sustaining wild population. The species carries a statutory no-closed-season classification, which exists only because there is no huntable population to protect with a season structure. No release-site geography is published by VFWD, and private releases are not centrally mapped, so there is no mappable sub-state pattern.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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