Quail Harvest Data 2005-2015 – AZQuailToday.com

Summary of Small Game Harvest Information
Summary of Willow Springs Quail Check Station Data
Summary of Freeman Ranch Quail Check Station Data
Summary of Punkin Center Quail Check Station Data
Mearn’s Quail Wing Barrel Data

Summary of Small Game Harvest Information Back to Top

Year	Hunters	Hunter Days	Days/Hunter	Gambel’s	Scaled	Mearns’	Junior Harvest	Total Harvest	Kill/Day
QUAIL
1996	56,946	311,315	5.5	639,633	62,020	16,313	8,955	726,921	2.3
1997	49,328	273,100	5.5	476,165	51,838	21,992	4,837	554,832	2.0
1998	60,639	286,954	4.7	754,211	58,765	15,532	11,750	840,258	2.9
1999	60,104	311,586	5.2	708,764	44,595	29,200	11,671	794,230	2.5
2000	47,885	242,432	5.1	415,487	42,201	70,081	9,433	537,202	2.2
2001	52,432	287,878	5.5	712,215	52,204	38,556	11,584	814,559	2.8
2002	41,312	179,413	4.3	311,997	35,889	32,695	2,872	383,453	2.1
2003	51,511	274,155	5.3	674,652	28,795	44,250	12,192	759,889	2.7
2004	44,142	220,032	5.0	500,739	24,129	18,532	21,577	654,977	2.5
2005	74,991	394,749	5.3	1,455,007	55,516	33,917	23,409	1,566,849	3.9
The Small Game questionnaire was modified to collect unit specific data. Sample no longer weighted in analysis. The data is not comparable to historic data. In 2004 and 2005, the historic survey format and the new unit specific survey format were run simultaneously. Beginning in 2006, only the new unit specific survey format was used.
Year	Hunters	Hunter Days	Days/Hunter	Gambel’s	Scaled	Mearns’	Junior Harvest	Total Harvest	Kill/Day
GAMBEL’S
2004	39,130	146,479	3.7	477,465			24,740	502,205	3.3
2005	45,644	192,000	3.4	861,392			94,595	955,987	4.5
2006	55,736	220,938	4.0	670,407			14,328	684,735	3.1
2007	37,623	239,350	6.4	481,410			7,562	488,972	2.0
2008	27,462	125,349	4.6	304,738			14,658	316,396	2.5
2009	31,877	179,244	5.6	411,198			7,211	418,409	2.3
2010	27,199	140,758	5.2	483,909			8,242	492,151	3.5
2011	46,594	285,509	6.1	533,210			9,940	543,150	1.9
2012	51,315	231,914	4.5	393,901			7,445	401,346	1.7
2013	44,190	210,927	4.8	377,387			12,039	389,426	1.8
SCALED
2004	3,429	11,206	3.3		9,982		612	10,594	0.9
2005	3,956	13,640	3.4		23,678		3,070	26,748	1.7
2006	4,012	13,110	3.3		15,259		0	15,259	1.2
2007	6,302	41,404	6.6		47,265		567	47,832	1.2
2008	2,443	12,720	5.2		9,940		1,179	11,119	0.9
2009	2,747	12,720	4.6		7,669		57	7,726	0.6
2010	2,654	9,433	3.7		10,623		2,106	12,729	1.3
2011	4,881	30,050	8.0		16,419		1,331	17,750	0.5
2012	5,052	28,848	5.7		32,238		997	33,235	1.2
2013	5,289	22,269	4.2		18,024		0	18,024	0.8
MEARNS’
2004	4,103	17,024	4.1			21,127	919	22,046	1.2
2005	3,366	10,274	3.1			18,069	1,181	19,250	1.8
2006	6,734	36,393	5.4			78,374	430	78,804	2.2
2007	6,734	34,850	5.2			80,918	1,260	82,178	2.4
2008	3,580	13,605	3.8			32,938	1,853	34,791	2.6
2009	4,121	10,874	2.6			16,024	0	16,024	1.5
2010	3,297	12,546	3.8			10,257	183	10,440	0.8
2011	5,059	26,004	5.1			22,454	888	23,342	0.9
2012	5,251	25,392	4.8			30,044	665	30,709	1.2
2013	6,194	19,833	3.2			36,465	209	36,674	1.8

Summary of Willow Springs Quail Check Station Data Back to Top

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14*	2014-15*
Number of Hunter Days	203	214	323	62	133	102	135	81	105	229	142
Number of Quail Bagged	393	614	202	120	264	212	371	122	163	434	103
Number of Gambel’s	382	609	181	114	222	188	364	122	159	434	102
Number of Scaled	4	5	3	6	0	5	3	0	9	0	1
Quail Per Day	2.0	2.9	0.6	1.8	1.7	1.8	2.7	1.5	1.5	1.9	0.9

*Willow Springs and Freeman Ranch Quail Check Station data were combined for 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

	04-05		05-06		06-07		07-08		08-09		09-10		2010-11		2011-12		2012-13		2013-14*		2014-15*
	G	S	G	S	G	S	G	S	G	S	G	S	Gam.	Scaled	Gam.	Scaled	Gam.	Scaled	Gam.	Scaled	Gam.	Scaled
Number of Adult Quail Classified	138	4	129	1	108	1	66	2	25	0	59	1	78	0	17	0	24	2	44	—	—	—
Number of Young Quail Classified	191	3	240	1	29	1	40	3	96	0	59	0	130	3	22	0	32	2	11	—	—	—
Percent Young in the Bag	58	—	65	—	21	—	38	—	70	—	50	—	63	—	56	—	57	—	20	—	—	—

G – Gambel’s, S – Scaled
*Willow Springs and Freeman Ranch Quail Check Station data were combined for 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.
Back to Top

Summary of Freeman Road Quail Check Station Data Back to Top

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13
Number of Hunter Days	231	256	248	161	131	149	95	100	124
Number of Quail Bagged	375	675	219	162	270	266	380	83	162
Number of Gambels	375	675	219	162	234	266	380	83	162
Number of Scaled	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quail Per Day	1.6	2.6	0.9	1.0	2.1	1.8	4.0	0.8	1.3

	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s	Gambel’s
Number of Adult Quail Classified	126	73	50	61	26	30	28	12	10
Number of Young Quail Classified	79	272	21	32	138	40	67	4	20
Percent Young in the Bag	39	79	30	34	84	57	71	25	67

Summary of Punkin Center Quail Check Station Data Back to Top

	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2013-14	2014-15
Number of Hunter Days	169	218	94	—	102	74	n/a	—	27	13
Number of Gambels	184	1436	184	69	285	217	n/a	1	31	28
Quail Per Day	1.1	6.6	2.0	—	2.8	2.9	n/a	—	1.1	2.2

	Gambels	Gambels	Gambels	Gambels	Gambels	Gambels
Number of Adult Quail Classified	30	58	n/a	—	7	16
Number of Young Quail Classified	116	136	n/a	—	12	12
Percent Young in the Bag	79	70	n/a	—	0.63	43

Mearn’s Quail Wing Barrel Data Back to Top

Year	Number of Birds Harvested	Number of Hunter Days	Birds/Day	Hours Hunted	Percent Juvenile	Birds/Hour
1977
1978		34		192	77.2
1979	142	135	1.1	526	59.5	0.27
1980
1981	101	113	0.9	488	84.9	0.21
1982	90	44	2.0		76.7
1983		144	0.0	546	83.7
1984	1047	277	3.8	1173.5	80.9	0.89
1985	1068	367	2.9	1513.5	86.4	0.71
1986	509	181	2.8		69.4
1987	332	188	1.8	764.5	71.5	0.43
1988	644	305	2.1	1521.5	83.4	0.42
1989	244	213	1.1	810	55.9	0.30
1990	421	195	2.2	943	79.7	0.45
1991	750	319	2.4	1437.3	75.6	0.52
1992	703	256	2.7	1199	78.4	0.59
1993	275	172	1.6	814.5	72.9	0.34
1994	202	133	1.5	590	45.6	0.34
1995	115	150	0.8	606.5	75.3	0.19
1996	153	142	1.1	697	75.2	0.22
1997	166	128	1.3	494.5	71.1	0.34
1998	236	132	1.8	539	72.7	0.44
1999	642	226	2.8	1015	75.5	0.63
2000	1312	414	3.2	1710.25	73.8	0.77
2001	888	297	3.0	1199.5	79.7	0.74
2002	361	133	2.7	608	74.1	0.59
2003	606	218	2.8	937	77.6	0.65
2004	399	142	2.8	486	73.5	0.82
2005	591	186	3.2	735	69.4	0.80
2006	778	217	3.6	766	81.9	1.02
2007	2295	539	4.3	2044	72.7	1.12
2008	1198	386	3.1	1460.5	76	0.82
2009	499	223	2.2	906.75	54.5	0.55
2010	35	56	0.6	144	63.6	0.24
2011	67	51	1.3	152.5	63.5	0.44
2012	386	141	2.7	522.75	70.8	0.74
2013	616	173	3.6	753.3	68.7	0.82
Mean	542	201	2.7	857	72	0.63