Event Description: This event includes wildlife identification and management, and wildlife management techniques or problems. Competitors will be asked to identify specimens or parts of specimens including skulls, furs, wings, feathers, antlers/horns, tracks, scat, or other sign. Wildlife identification and management questions may consist of True/False, multiple choice, matching, short answer, fill-in the blank, ranking alternative choices or any other objective testing method the officials may choose.
Game Call Identification: 2026 will focus on Mallard duck sounds. Competitors will identify different calls made by Mallard ducks.
Course: Twenty to 100 stations requiring identification, analysis, or interpretation with up to 100 additional written questions included in this event. Questions may include habitat, breeding seasons, and behavior, external identifying features, fundamental principles of wildlife management, calls (box, slate, diaphragm, etc.) and other characteristics.
Time Limits: Competitors will move through the course expeditiously without undue delay. An appropriate time period will be determined by the officials and announced prior to the competition. The time limit will be enforced. For preparation purposes, a time limit of approximately 2 ½ hours will be implemented.
Reading assistance will be provided during testing, upon request prior to event.