SUMMARY OF FOREIGN GAME BIRD PROPAGATION AND LIBERATIONS 
1960 to 1963 
Periodic situation reports are an integral part of any well run 
research program. Partial reports have been issued from time to time, 
but with Program personnel generally overseas, it has been difficult to 
keep track of progress on a countrywide basis. 
Program acceptance has been substantial. Cooperative agreements 
with 45 of the 50 States and with 2 Territories have been signed. Eco- 
logical appraisals of problem habitats, prepared by most of these States, 
cover about 1/5 of the United States. Currently 25 States and Guam are 
actively rearing and/or testing out foreign species procured through the 
Foreign Game Introduction Program, 
Considerable progress in securing birds sufficient to permit sound 
trial liberations has been made. Over the period covered by this report 
16,145 wild-trapped birds have been delivered to States requesting them 
for trial release or for breeding stock on State game farms. From the 
breeders thus provided 78,217 individuals are reported to have been 
raised, over the past 4 years, to supplement existing releases of wild- 
trapped stock or to provide additional birds for fresh trials. The 
majority of these were pheasants, 
It is now appropriate to review what is happening to the birds re- 
leased and to look into the program of raising additional birds on State 
game farms. To further this objective, Program personnel, under the guid- 
ance of State biologists and farm foremen, have made repeated on-the-spot 
inspections of most of the areas or farms on which foreign species have 
been liberated or are being propagated. In addition, cooperating States 
were requested to fill out a questionnaire covering a brief summary of 
activities and results for the period 1960-1962. This analysis was con- 
densed and issued as Progress Report Number 12. The present Report car- 
ries these operations through 1963. To facilitate comparison and preserve 
continuity most records of previous years operations are repeated in the 
present tabular presentation, Included also, for the record, are reports 
on four species, subspecies or crosses of foreign game birds with which 
various States have been experimenting on their own and for whom the par- 
ent stock was not secured under the State-Federal Foreign Game Introduc- 
tion Program, 
RELEASES AND RESULTS 
Trial liberations of 16 species or subspecies and of 5 pheasant 
crosses are currently underway in 23 States and Guam. Twelve of these 
occupy farm and adjacent brush or waste lands. Ten of the twelve are 
pheasants. Six are potentially adaptable to range and dry or irrigated 
farmlands; three are woodland species. Areas in which these are being 
tried lie in the central, southern, southwestern and far western States. 
