On the whole, more cheer pheasants were recorded in this survey than from the same points in 2002−2003, indicating some success in population growth. The total breeding population of cheer pheasants is estimated to be some 2 490 pairs, though this does not consider the actual area of occupancy in the study area. Mean density of cheer pheasant in the valley was estimated at 11.8☖.47 pairs per km 2, with significant differences in terms of both counts and estimated density of cheer were significantly different across the three survey zones, with the highest in the Chinari region and the lowest, that is the area with no recorded sightings of the pheasants, in Gari Doppata.
Over the course of our survey, 113 birds were recorded. We conducted dawn call count surveys at 17 points clustered in three survey zones of the valley, 11 of which had earlier been used for a 2002−2003 survey of the birds. Though it is well established that the species is threatened and its numbers declining, updated definitive estimates are lacking, so in 2011, we conducted a survey to assess the density, population size, and threats to the species in Jhelum valley, Azad Kashmir, which holds the largest known population of cheer pheasants in Pakistan. The cheer pheasant Catreus wallichi is a globally threatened species that inhabits the western Himalayas.
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