Wisconsin

Ruffed grouse is regulated through two zones, the larger northern and western zone generally the stronger of the two; Wisconsin's own long-running spring survey consistently finds northern Wisconsin the clear density leader among the state's three tracked grouse regions, with the unglaciated Driftless Area of the southwest the lowest and most variable, despite sitting inside the larger zone's boundary. Northern bobwhite quail's range has been tracked by the same roadside survey continuously since 1949 and has held steady for decades: a contiguous band running from west-central Wisconsin through the Driftless Area and into south-central Wisconsin, with the species now concentrated in the southwest and only scattered further east.

Ring-necked pheasant hunting is statewide, and the wild population is most common in west-central and southeastern Wisconsin, distinct from a separate put-and-take program that releases several thousand pen-raised birds each December across roughly two dozen state properties in the central and southern part of the state. Gray (Hungarian) partridge still carries a nominal statewide season, closed only in three north-central counties, but no confirmed wild population remains anywhere in the state; the modern season is a regulatory holdover from a historic introduced range rather than a sign birds are actually there.