Pheasant
This extreme northeastern corner of Washington isn’t prime pheasant country but bird hunters did harvest 654 ringnecks in District 1 last season. The pheasant harvest was down from 2010 throughout the district and also down significantly (nearly 40 percent) from the 2006-2010 average.

Quail
The quail harvest here, although small compared to the state’s best quail areas, was better last year than in 2010. The total harvest in Ferry and Stevens counties was just over 1,000 birds.

Forest Grouse
While the pheasant and quail hunting in District 1 are marginal, not so the forest grouse hunting. Even though the district-wide harvest was down nearly 44 percent from 2010, hunters here bagged 13,357 blue, ruffed and spruce grouse last season, by far the highest district total in the state. Stevens County alone gave up 7,262 grouse in 2011.

Pheasant
Whitman County was the top pheasant producer in District 2 last season, and second-best in the entire state, giving up 7,109 birds. Spokane County hunters harvested 3,055 pheasants, Lincoln County hunters 1,459, for a district total of 11,523 birds.

Quail
The quail harvest was generally up in District 2 (although down in Whitman County) in 2011, as hunters took 7,169 quail during the season. The Lincoln County harvest represents an 85-percent increase from that of the 2010 season.

Partridge
Hunters harvested 1,099 gray (Hungarian) partridge and 627 chukar partridge in District 2 during the 2011 season. Virtually all the chukar (613) came from Whitman County. Although Whitman County’s gray partridge harvest was down 30 percent from 2010 and 20 percent from the five-year average, it still led the district with 576.

Forest Grouse
Bird hunters harvested 714 forest grouse in District 2 during the 2011 season. Nearly 500 of those birds came from Spokane County, even though the harvest there was 60 percent lower than in 2010 and 84 percent lower than the five year average, 2006-2010.

Pheasant
One of the best pheasant-hunting districts in the state, District 3 produced 10,297 ringnecks for hunters in 2011. Walla Walla County was best of all, with a harvest of 5,813. That’s down about 25 percent from 2010 and from the five-year average.

Quail
Although the harvest was down from 2010 in three of the four counties, District 3 quail hunters bagged 7,437 birds last season. Over 3,000 of those quail were taken in Walla Walla County. The district’s other three counties all produced 1,400 to 1,500 quail each.

Partridge
Asotin County ranks near the top of the heap among the state’s best chukar-hunting spots, and it produced 2,356 of District 3’s 2,912 chukar last season. The chukar harvest here was up overall from both 2010 and the 2006-2010 average.

Gray (Hungarian) partridge populations here don’t compare to chukar populations, but hunters harvested just under 1,900 of them in District 3 during the 2011 season. Asotin County topped the rest of the district with 746 birds.

Forest Grouse
Hunters bagged 1,631 forest grouse in District 3 during the 2011 season. County-by-county harvests ranged from 157 in Garfield County to 625 in Columbia County.

Pheasant
Hunters bagged 3,131 pheasant in Benton County and 4,149 more in Franklin County for a District 4 total of 7,280 in 2011. The harvest was up by 89 percent over the previous year in Benton County and up by four percent in Franklin County.

Quail
Hunters harvested 12,210 quail in District 4 during the past season, and that total was pretty much evenly split between Benton and Franklin counties. The quail harvest was up 52 percent over 2010 in Benton County and up 30 percent in Franklin County.

Partridge
Hunters bagged 485 chukar and 461 gray partridge in District 4 during the 2011 season.  

Pheasant
The pheasant harvest in District 5 was up a little in 2011, as hunters bagged an impressive 13,249 ringnecks in the pheasant-rich part of the Columbia Basin. Over 10,000 of those birds came from Grant County, the top pheasant producer in Washington.

Quail
The quail harvest dropped off a little from 2010, but Grant County still treated quail hunters very well last year, producing 13,725 birds. Hunters in Adams County added 2,608 quail to the district’s harvest total.

Partridge
Hunters bagged 737 chukar, most of them from Grant County, and 663 gray partridge in District 5 during the 2011 season.

Pheasant
The harvest was up about 13 percent from 2010, as Okanogan County hunters bagged 1,073 pheasant last year. That number, though, is down 18 percent from the 2006-2010 average.

Quail
Although down from both the 2010 harvest and the five-year average, the quail harvest in District 6 was a substantial 7,126 birds in 2011.

Partridge
Compared to 2010, the harvest of both chukar and gray partridge was up substantially in District 6 last year. Hunters harvested 960 chukar and 1,257 gray (Hungarian) partridge.

Forest Grouse
Sprawling Okanogan County was the top forest grouse produce in Washington last year, producing a harvest of 8,280 blue, ruffed and spruce grouse. While impressive, that number represents a 46-percent decline from 2010 and a 48-percent drop from the five-year average.

Pheasant
The harvest was up from 2010 in Douglas County, down in Chelan County, as District 7 pheasant hunters bagged 793 birds during the 2011season. Both counties, though, saw a pheasant harvest that was below the 2006-2010 five-year average.,
           
Quail
Quail hunters in District 7 bagged 13,169 birds during the 2011 season, down somewhat from the previous year and considerably below the five-year average harvest.

Partridge
Hunters took 2,201 chukar and 411 gray partridge in district 7 last year. The chukar harvest was down a little from 2010 and only about half the five-year average.

Forest Grouse
Chelan is by far the better forest grouse producer of the two counties in District 7, and hunters there bagged 2,237 grouse there during the 2011 season. That’s well below both the five-year average and the 2010 harvest. The grouse harvest in Douglas County was 181 birds, up nearly 30 percent from 2010.

Pheasant
Yakima County hunters took 5,155 ringnecks in 2010 and Kittitas County hunters added 720, for a district total of 5,875.  All those numbers are 28 to 45 percent below the 2010 harvest and the five-year average harvest.

Quail
Although the 2011 Yakima County quail harvest was down by 17 percent from 2010 and 24 percent from the five-year average, hunters bagged a very impressive 20,716 quail, tops in the state by far. Kittitas County quail hunters added another 2,142 birds, for a District 8 total quail harvest of 22,858.

Partridge
Hunters bagged 3,673 chukar and 850 gray partridge in District 8 last season. The 2,583 chukar bagged in Yakima County was double the harvest of 2010.

Forest Grouse
The harvest of blue ruffed and spruce grouse was down 50 percent or more from 2010 and from the five-year average, as hunters took 3,850 forest grouse in District89 last year.

Pheasant
Hunters harvested 611 pheasant in Klickitat County last year, nearly double the 2010 harvest.

Quail
Hunters took 874 quail in District 9 during the 2011 season, all but 31 of them in Klickitat County. Although that’s more than double the 2010 harvest, it’s 29 percent lower than the five-year average.

Partridge
Hunters harvested 161 chukar (up 347 percent from 2010) and 304 gray partridge is District 9 last year, all of them in Klickitat County.

Forest Grouse
Grouse hunters harvested 961 birds in Skamania County and 489 in Klickitat County, for District 9 total of 1,450 birds.

Quail
The entire District 10 quail harvest of 52 birds came from Clark County.

Forest Grouse
District 10 bird hunters harvested 7,239 forest grouse during the 2011 season, more than 5,600 of them in Cowlitz and Lewis counties.

Quail
Thurston County hunters accounted for all 19 of the quail harvested in district 11 last year.

Forest Grouse
Forest grouse hunters harvested 1,994 birds during District 11’s 2011 grouse season. About 56 percent of that harvest came from Thurston County, 44 percent from Pierce County.

Quail
King County hunters bagged 52 quail last year, on par with 2010 but far more than the five-year average.

Forest Grouse
The harvest was down about 60 percent from 2010 and 66 percent from the five-year average, but King County hunters managed to bag 577 forest grouse in 2011.

Quail
District 13 hunters harvested 83 quail in 2011, all of them in Snohomish County

Forest Grouse
All 815 of the forest grouse harvested in district 13 were taken in Snohomish County.

Quail
Hunters bagged only 10 quail in District 14 last year, an all of them came from San Juan County.

Forest Grouse
Skagit County hunters accounted for 1,703 forest grouse and Whatcom County hunters another 702 birds, for a District 14 total harvest of 2,405 grouse in 2011. Compared to 2010, the harvest was down 48 percent in Skagit County and 22 percent in Whatcom County.

Quail
Mason County hunters accounted for all 31 of the quail harvested in District 15 during the 2011 season.

Forest Grouse
Mason County hunters took all but 29 of the 1,714 forest grouse harvested in District 15 last year.

Quail
All 116 quail taken in District 16 came from Clallam County, and that’s about 80 more birds than were harvested in 2010.

Quail
Hunters bagged 101 quail in district 17 in 2011, most of them in Pacific County.  Most of these were harvested along the valley bottoms.

Forest Grouse
Hunters in Grays Harbor County harvested 3,860 forest grouse last season, while Pacific County hunters accounted for 2,719 birds. The harvest was down somewhat in Grays Harbor County, but up 25 percent from 2010 in Pacific County.  Blue grouse occur primarily in higher elevations above 500 feet while ruffed grouse can be found throughout the District.