Ring Hunt competition: a useful gesture, with rewards to be won

Returning rings in practice

If you shoot a ringed pheasant, it is essential to pass on the following information:

• Ring number and type (wing or leg)
• Surname and first name of the shooter
• Date, commune and place where it was shot
• Sex of the bird

The ring must then be handed to the contact person for your commune or directly to the FDCI technicians:

• Anthony Valdivia [e-mail address and telephone: see the original article]
• Sébastien Blanchard [e-mail address and telephone: see the original article]

Why return your rings?

Every return is a valuable piece of data that makes it possible to:

• Monitor the dispersal of the pheasant poults,
• Assess their survival and the effectiveness of the releases,
• Improve future operations and the local management of small game.

Period taken into account:

• Birds shot during the 2025 season
• Returns recorded up to and including 1st March 2026

Three prizes will be awarded:

• “Territorial Commitment” prize: for the clubs taking part in the pheasant poult scheme,
• “Fair Play” prize: for the non-participating clubs that passed on the most information,
• “Ambassador” prize: for the best individual contributors.

Prize-giving: 11 April 2026, at the FDCI General Meeting in La Côte Saint-André.

This competition is more than a game: it is a collective approach that gives value to responsible hunting and to everyone's involvement in the sustainable management of small game.

“Small game is our priority, here as at national level. The pheasant poult scheme is the proof of it, and we will in fact be talking about it at the General Meeting in April in La Côte Saint-André. So yes, pheasant releases are sometimes criticised. But hunting is changing. If you shoot a ringed pheasant, let it be known. You will thus contribute to monitoring the bird in the department. We need you.”