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pretty cheap. They’ll say (unclear) wildlife (unclear)… One to five thousand, every year we will document ok this year we release band numbers one to five hundred (unclear). We’re trying to get five hundred birds released this year but (unclear) this year is (unclear) BL: What’s your guy’s survival rate? Because I know the mainland survival rates for release birds is like one to two percent. JPC: Yeah we don’t know how many numbers are on them because you know what’s pretty unique especially in a place like Kapapali even in Mauna Kea too (unclear) how far these birds flew so, we get the harvest data that comes back. We get our average totals of observations we feel that we see (unclear) I was down in Kapapala last week and I saw eight released pheasants bills (unclear) so what was cool they’re starting to show their breeding cycle (unclear) on there what we call it (unclear) rock where they’re postured up all and their face kind of gets inflamed and their waddles and their comb if you call it that tail erect postured up trying to court the females. I saw some of the females usually they’re in their breeding season (unclear) from the males, so we see some of that. Survivability we don’t have much hard data on it but we’ve been pretty happy with the reports we get back from the hunters that have seen many of the hen’s out in the fields and various places. We know we’re not going to get a 100% success rate. We’re hoping through trial methods to see survival by putting transmitters on some of our released birds via (unclear) transmitters. We may want to; we’re going to focus on hens to try and track individual hens to see if they start breeding, surviving breeding, see if they survive to see if they nest. Chuckers, what’s unique with chuckers is chuckers are cubby birds they will hang around in their cubbys. (unclear) if you track one you track the (unclear) that it hangs out with so you can use one transmitter to track (unclear) we’re going to try that potentially this year with the transmitters (unclear) there’s various companies out there where you can cheaper VHF. VHF ones are the cheapest. You can get fancier tags, CTT tags that are selling cheap GPS tags. There are tags that will take the GPS data and will upload it through the cellular network (unclear) that are more expensive (unclear) VHF that require (unclear) we don’t have enough to dedicate to tracking all these birds all the time, so we weigh the benefits on each side. BL: Just a suggestion, maybe we can release the hen after the season. I know you’re not supposed to shoot them, but you know accidents do happen and I think everybody’s being out there as a (unclear) JPC: Yeah, yeah, like a redneck hen can really look like a small francolin with (unclear) with a (unclear) long tail. BL: I have (unclear) the joke is all I got, I accidentally shot a long tailed urkle… because brown urkle, you know, when you get the thing and you can’t see that long tail ones are (unclear) it’d be hard, I was just suggesting they move and release the hens at the end of season so there is more hens than there are in (unclear) JPC: We did a version of that this year with roosters. We kept fifty roosters behind to put back in what we call our core release areas being (unclear) parts of (unclear) where we find it more productive for game birds. We kept a bunch of roosters we put back there after what gets hunted (unclear) again, because the hens don’t get harvested (unclear) we put them back 10