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Trick I would use employs a fully adult rooster either in a cage or on a tie-cord. Give rooster some meal worms and he will tidbit call like crazy likely calling hen out of bush. Will work even if lost bird is immature.

I have had such dispersal events many times. In most instances displaced bird does not go more than a couple hundred yards. Some lost to predators but is far from rule.

Walk in ever widening circles around home concentrating search pattern in areas with trees, especially where you see shrubs and other things hen can get under. Look carefully for signs of scratching in leaf piles, mulch and compost. My pattern would involve walking 50 feet, stop look...