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2000 Pheasant
Stocked in Virginia
Approximately 2000 pheasants have been stocked in Virginia by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries this spring in a continuing effort to establish some form of this game bird in the state, reports Game Farm Manager Dennis Hart. The heaviest stocking was in Rockingham and Augusta Counties where good habitat/ and an intensive predator control program have combined to create a good opportunity for establishing a new species. Other releases were made in Southwest Virginia, Piedmont and Tidewater sections to bolster previous stocking efforts. The hybrid Iranian blackneck - Chinese ringneck is still the mainstay of the Game Commission’s foreign game bird introduction program. • Although usually stocked in the fall, a number of Kalij pheasants were released in Henry County this spring to encourage nesting before the groups became widely dispersed. Followups on previous releases in Giles County showed that the birds survived Virginia’s
93.4%