Wisconsin Wildlife Reports
Results from these reports will be used by wildlife program managers to inform them on harvest, participation and hunter efforts and opinions to help them make decisions on species management.
Wildlife reports are divided into surveys addressing five species groups: small game, big game, waterfowl, furbearers and nongame. Interpretations of data in these reports are subject to change as a result of data verification and more extensive data analysis.
Historical harvest estimates are indices of harvest trends. Thus, caution should be used in interpreting trends in harvest estimates as indices of population trends. Harvest is influenced by game population levels, hunter effort, hunting regulations, weather conditions and pelt prices.
These reports were made possible by Pittman-Robertson funding.
Semi-annual reports are distributed in April and August.
- Small game
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Report title Previous Current Pheasant Rural mail carrier pheasant survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Spring ring-necked pheasant surveys 2023 [PDF] 2024 [PDF] Ruffed grouse Ruffed grouse drumming survey 2023 [PDF] 2024 [PDF] Sharp-tailed grouse Sharp-tailed grouse harvest & hunter survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wisconsin sharp-tailed grouse survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Other Regional bobwhite quail and cottontail rabbit survey 2019 [PDF] 2021 [PDF] Small game harvest 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Summer wildlife inquiry 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Ten-week brood observations 2018 [PDF] 2019 [PDF] Upland gamebird brood survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] - Big game
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Report title Previous Current Bear Black bear harvest report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Black bear hunter questionnaire 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Black bear population analyses 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Damaging and nuisance wildlife Agricultural deer damage shooting permits 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Black bear damage and nuisance complaints 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wildlife damage abatement and claims program 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Deer Archery deer hunting questionnaire 2013 [PDF] 2017 [PDF] Chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin deer 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Deer ages and condition 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Deer harvest report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Deer hunter wildlife survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Deer hunting questionnaire 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Deer recruitment surveys 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] White-tailed deer population status 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Winter severity indices 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wisconsin deer hunting summary 2020 [PDF] 2021 [PDF] Elk Wisconsin elk hunting summary 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Gray Wolf Gray wolf hunter/trapper questionnaire 2014 [PDF] 2021 [PDF] Gray wolf monitoring report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wisconsin wolf season report 2014 [PDF] 2021 [PDF] Turkey Fall turkey harvest report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Fall turkey hunting questionnaire 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Spring turkey harvest report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Spring turkey hunting questionnaire 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wild turkey landowner brood survey 2010 [PDF] 2011 [PDF] - Waterfowl
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Report title Previous Current Bird banding accomplishments 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Waterfowl breeding population survey for Wisconsin 2023 [PDF] 2024 [PDF] Wisconsin Canada goose harvest report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Wisconsin youth waterfowl hunt 2018 [PDF] 2019 [PDF] - Furbearers
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Report title Previous Current Beaver population analyses 2011 [PDF] 2014 [PDF] Beaver trapping questionnaire 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Bobcat harvest 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Bobcat hunter/trapper survey 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Bobcat population analyses 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Fisher harvest 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Fisher population analyses 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Fur trapper survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Otter harvest 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Otter population analyses 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Winter track counts 2017 [PDF] 2018 [PDF] Wisconsin fur buyers report 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] - Nongame
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Report title Previous Current American marten winter track surveys in Northern Wisconsin 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Annual mammal survey 2018 [PDF] 2019 [PDF] Central Wisconsin Greater prairie-chicken survey 2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Frog and toad survey 2021 [PDF] 2022 [PDF] Moose observations 2021-2022 [PDF] 2023 [PDF] Rare carnivore observations 2018 [PDF] 2019 [PDF] Wisconsin bald eagle and osprey nest surveys 2020 [PDF] 2021 [PDF] - Historical harvest estimates
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For more information about this data, please see the WI Wildlife Harvest Summary, 1930-2019 [PDF]