Vol. 24, No. 7 
Page 3 
On sanctuaries near Bogota In Jasper County. ^ ^1?’lesser' 
chicken cocks has ranged rom a °w o ^ jgy 2 . The average has been 106 
1968 to a high of 208.6 cocks pa ' . . f .qry to 1980. By 1981 the density 
cocks per 2.6 km* over the H-yearpenodof^b? to.1980. ^ ^ „ f the 
of chickens at Bogota a tte r -F°eld-H C G r aw and Donnel ley-Wal ters units) contained 
sanctuary acreage (Yeatter Me ,-hirkens were located on or near the 
m Of the chicken cocks atB ° 9 °‘ a r ' . f c f h '^"secutive year, only I cock each 
Mark 17 and Mark 40 acre urn s an d 110-acre Galbreath sanctuaries, and 2 
boomed on the 140-acre C “ f fison uni t and 30-acre J. McCormack 
and 4 cocks boomed on the 222 acre utis 
tracts, respectively. 
. , roH a maior factor influencing the density 
Pheasants must now be considered a -* (MWRL 24(6):2-3). The 
of prairie chickens that can be ‘ e !u is spr ing were distributed over all 7 
record number of pheasants at 09 . the a vai 1 able nest cover than was 
sanctuary units in much better PP pheasants make heavy use Q f prairie grass 
the case for the prairie cmcKens stands of native grasses on the 
while chickens show limited use o * sanctuaries and use of 
sanctuaries. These differences in d stnbution a ^9^ considered in a 
bein,J -sidered^thi s fail ^ i.y 
by^lghtligMingl'wh^te ( 2 )"m*nlndzing disturbance to the prairie chickens by 
the trapping effort. 
Ecology and Management of Vj hi te-tai led Peer. - W 87 R j.E^ChelsvIg, P.A. Brewer 
Changes in the landscape caused by corn and . 3 ). 
not trigger fail movements of deer aw y f J and February 198 O, only 2 
Of 5 female deer that were radio f ^ iS™er range. Of the remaining 3, 1 adult 
were observed to move away r° r range by deer hunters during the 
and I yearling were killed,°" *7 year ,j ng whose transmitter failed after 
T h SSS> h K:i rlluSTin''the same range where she was captured, both winter and 
summer. 
Both deer that left the summer ranges were^dult f ^ a,as rec .^ e ^^ n ^ e are 
summer 7-3 km (4.6 mi) northeast o_ ^e ^ prior to the 1930 shotgun hunting 
unknown because her transmit times on her summer range immediately 
't,r,^°r^v:True 
:l^i:rbit^;!n?^:n"1S k t— -ause we know neither her present 
Toeation ior the stimulus that caused her to move. 
The other adult female presents a ' oi/winter'ranged(Allerton Park) 
near the end of crop harvest, s e wen , her 1930 summer range 6.8 km 
S-as next found on 26 October ,1.2 km 
