Predicting Hunting Success from Call Counts of Mourning and White-Winged Doves
Brown DE and Smith RH. 1976. Predicting Hunting Success from Call Counts of Mourning and White-Winged Doves. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 40(4):743-749
Comparison of white-winged dove (_Zenaida asiatica_) and mourning dove (_Z. macroura_) call-count indices and September hunting success in Arizona indicated that regression coefficients for these relationships were significantly different from zero (P-0.05). Further correlation analysis showed that call counts were probably a valid survey technique to measure population levels of white-winged and mourning doves and that the mourning dove call-count index could be used with reasonable accuracy to forecast early fall hunting success in Arizona.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Brown, David; Smith, Ronald
- Units
- SODN
- Keywords
- Hunting, Ornithology (behavior)