Species structure of small game hunting in the Kirov region at the beginning of the XXI century

An assessment of the species structure and size of small game prey for the spring and autumn-winter hunting seasons on the territory of the Kirov region was made, using a questionnaire survey based on the analysis of the prey of 3220 individuals. Small game includes such species (groups of species) as mallard, Northern shoveler, pintail, teal-whistle, teal cracker (Garganey), Eurasian wigeon, diving ducks, white-fronted goose, bean goose, wood grouse, black grouse, hazel grouse, woodcock, double snipe, snipe, corncrake, wood pigeon, turtle doves, white hare, European hare. The average index of production by species and groups of species per 1 hunter, who went hunting in the spring and autumn-winter seasons, has been calculated. The size of game catch during the spring hunting was 135.8 thousand individuals, in the autumn-winter hunting season -470 thousand individuals. The summation of the results obtained made it possible to estimate the volume of the total (annual) catch of small game in the amount of almost 606 thousand individuals. The main species are the mallard, hazel grouse, white hare, woodcock, black grouse, Eurasian wigeon, teal cracker (Garganey), Northern shoveler, wood grouse, white-fronted goose, bean goose, teal-whistle, their total share is 94.88% of the annual production of small game. The first five species can be assessed as the most massive in production (or popular), the share of each of them is over 10% of the total production, and in total they amount to 70.4%.

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What does hunting market price reflect? The role of species, landscape and management

Wildlife Research ◽

10.1071/wr14206 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 42 (3) ◽

pp. 280 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

M. Martinez-Jauregui ◽

A. C. Herruzo ◽

P. Campos

Keyword(s):

Market Price ◽

Hedonic Price ◽

Age Classes ◽

Mixed Effect ◽

Small Game ◽

Market Values ◽

Hedonic Price Analysis ◽

Hunting Bag ◽

Game Hunting ◽

Joint Consideration

Context Hunting transactions can be considered a composite good that includes various attributes or characteristics. Obtaining information regarding the utility derived from the different characteristics of the hunter’s bag might help elucidate the purchasing behaviour of hunters. This behaviour is, in turn, an important aspect to be considered by land managers in adaptive hunting management. Aims The present study attempts to identify the values given by hunters to species, landscape and management in the pricing of the hunter’s bag. Our analysis is focused on the hunting bag characteristics and adds to previous research the joint consideration of the amount and quality (sex, age classes and trophy) of various species in the hunter’s bag. Methods We use a dataset of 740 forest hunting estates at Andalucía (1 162 405 ha in the south of Spain) with an important mixed-species bag composition and where 225 game-hunting marketed transactions were declared by the hunting managers, including 13 541 hunting journeys. Hedonic-price analysis and mixed-effect models are used. Key results Our results showed that the composition of the harvested species (quantity and trophy of different species, sex and age classes), the activities related to harvesting and organisation of hunting events and landscape in hunting areas are relevant attributes in big-game market transactions. In small-game market transactions, species and landscape are the primary significant variables found. The latter variable plays a more important role in small game than in big game. Conclusions These findings indicated that hunting market values include, in addition to hunters’ recreational experience, ecological and management aspects with a broader social scope. Implications A further discussion regarding the possible conflict among hunter preferences, long-term game-management decisions and ecological goals is also provided.

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Hunters' preferences and willingness to pay for driven hunts in southern Europe

Wildlife Research ◽

10.1071/wr16044 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (8) ◽

pp. 649 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mario Soliño ◽

Begoña A. Farizo ◽

Pablo Campos

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Wild Boar ◽

Wildlife Management ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Free Range ◽

Small Game ◽

Marginal Willingness To Pay ◽

Game Hunting ◽

Big Game Hunting ◽

Wild Boar Hunting

Context Driven hunts exemplify the most representative form of big-game hunting in southern Europe. Aims We analysed hunter preferences for driven hunts and the marginal willingness to pay for their characteristics. Methods We conducted a discrete-choice experiment for driven hunts, taking into account the number of deer that could be hunted, the possibility of free-range wild-boar hunting, the presence of trophies, and other characteristics of driven hunts, such as congestion and travel time. Key results The highest influential driven-hunt characteristic on the utility of big-game hunters is the presence of trophy specimens, whereas for the small-game hunter it would be free-range wild-boar hunting. Conclusions Small-game hunters are reluctant to participate in the big-game market because of cultural factors and not because of budgetary restrictions. Implications Wildlife management and marketing of driven hunts can be improved taking into account the hunter preferences.

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A Moveable Feast: Variation in Faunal Resource Use among Central and Western North American Paleoindian Sites

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/40035854 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

pp. 417-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Matthew E. Hill

Keyword(s):

Great Plains ◽

Resource Use ◽

Rocky Mountains ◽

High Plains ◽

Prey Choice ◽

Small Game ◽

Mountain Environments ◽

Low Diversity ◽

Game Hunting ◽

Site Types

In the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America, researchers have debated the degree to which Paleoindian foragers relied on large-game hunting to fulfill their subsistence needs. This study reviews the zooarchaeological record from 60 sites to test predictions drawn from prey choice models. Results indicate that different site types provide different perspectives on Paleoindian faunal use. Data from kill assemblages can only inform on the exploitation of large game, while the full variety of prey used by Paleoindian foragers is represented at camp localities. In addition, prehistoric foragers varied prey choice based on habitat setting. In the low diversity grasslands of the High Plains and Rolling Hills, prehistoric groups hunted large game almost exclusively. In the more diverse environments of the alluvial valleys and foothill/mountain environments, foragers show higher diversity of faunal use. During the early Holocene, small game made a greater contribution in the diet of Paleoindians, possibly in response to changing environmental conditions and/or increased hunting pressure.

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Cartographic representation of the distribution of black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix L.) and hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia L.) in the West Siberian plain

Contemporary Problems of Ecology ◽

10.1134/s1995425511040072 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 396-400

Author(s):

Yu. S. Ravkin ◽

I. P. Kokorina

Keyword(s):

West Siberian Plain ◽

Black Grouse ◽

The West ◽

Hazel Grouse

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Prestige and Prejudice: The Role of Long Distance Big Game Hunting as an Optimal Foraging Decision

American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/0002-7316.77.1.168 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 168-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Deanna N. Grimstead

Keyword(s):

Central Place ◽

Central Place Foraging ◽

Economic Returns ◽

Long Distance ◽

Return Rates ◽

Small Game ◽

Game Hunting ◽

Big Game Hunting ◽

Foraging Decision

AbstractSignaling theory has much to offer anthropology and archaeology, which is in part why there is an increasing number of applications and healthy debates surrounding how best to apply it. One of those debates surrounds whether big game hunting is a costly signal or simply an aspect of efficient foraging. Grimstead (2010) contributed to this debate by showing that long-distance big-game hunting (greater than 100 km roundtrip) produces higher caloric return rates than does local small-game hunting, despite increased costs of travel and transport for the former. Whittaker and Carpenter (this issue) present a model that also suggests long-distance big-game hunting produces higher economic returns than local foraging but only up to about 50 km. This paper provides further details on the tenets of the Grimstead (2010) paper in response to criticisms by Whittaker and Carpenter (this issue), and then uses a previously published central place foraging model (Cannon 2003) to show that another model also shows long-distance big-game hunting over a distance greater than 100 kilometers roundtrip produces higher returns than local foraging.

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Antiquity of Communal Pronghorn Hunting in the North-Central Great Basin

American Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0002731600049027 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 74 (4) ◽

pp. 708-734 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Bryan Hockett ◽

Timothy W. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Great Basin ◽

Behavioral Variability ◽

Antilocapra Americana ◽

North Central ◽

Projectile Points ◽

Small Game ◽

The North ◽

Middle Archaic ◽

Communal Hunting ◽

Game Hunting

Communal hunting of small game such as hares has probably occurred for 10,000 years in the Great Basin. Ethnohistoric accounts of the nineteenth century indicate that indigenous peoples communally hunted large game (e.g., pronghorn, mountain sheep, deer, bison) across much of western North America including the Plains, desert Southwest, California, and Great Basin subregions, during and immediately preceding the contact era. Research in the Plains subregion suggests that communal large game hunting occurred there prior to the adoption of the bow-and-arrow between ca. 1,500 and 2,000 years ago, and in fact may have occurred as early as 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ethnohistoric accounts suggest that communal pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) hunts involving the construction of a corral with associated wings were utilized by many Great Basin peoples at the time of historic contact. This paper asks: (1) did communal pronghorn hunts occur prior to the Protohistoric Period (before ca. 600 ¹⁴C B.P.) in the north-central Great Basin? (2) if so, how ancient is this practice? and (3) did the methods or behaviors of the participants of these communal hunts vary through time? Detailed analysis of sites containing dozens, and in many cases, hundreds of projectile points that predate ca. 600 ¹⁴C B.P. found in or near existing juniper branch corrals and wings suggest that communal pronghorn hunting has occurred for at least 4,000 to 5,000 years in the north-central Great Basin. Further, behavioral variability is seen through time in the material remains of these communal hunts, with earlier (Middle Archaic) communal kills characterized by greater use of local toolstone sources, gearing-up just prior to the kill, and perhaps a greater reliance on shooting the trapped pronghorn rather than clubbing compared to Protohistoric communal kills.

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The effect of a natural reduction of red fox Vulpes vulpes on small game hunting bags in Norway

Wildlife Biology ◽

10.2981/wlb.1999.020 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 157 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Christian A. Smedshaug

Keyword(s):

Vulpes Vulpes ◽

Red Fox ◽

Small Game ◽

Hunting Bags ◽

Game Hunting

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Lagoa Santa Revisited: An Overview of the Chronology, Subsistence, and Material Culture of Paleoindian Sites in Eastern Central Brazil

Latin American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/1045-6635.23.4.533 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 533-550 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Astolfo G. M. Araujo ◽

Walter A. Neves ◽

Renato Kipnis

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Material Culture ◽

Cultural Patterns ◽

Settlement Systems ◽

Central Brazil ◽

Small Game ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Game Hunting

AbstractLagoa Santa, a karstic area in eastern Central Brazil, has been subject to research on human paleontology and archaeology for 175 years. Almost 300 Paleoindian human skeletons have been found since Danish naturalist Peter Lund’s pioneering work. Even so, some critical issues such as the role of rockshelters in settlement systems, and the possible paleoclimatic implications of the peopling of the region have yet to be addressed. We present some results obtained from recent excavations at four rockshelters and two open-air sites, new dates for human Paleoindian skeletons, and a model to explain the cultural patterns observed so far. It is also argued that the Paleoindian subsistence system at Lagoa Santa was similar to other locations in South America: generalized small-game hunting complemented by fruits, seed, and root gathering.

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