MANDY HOTCHKISS, Free Press columnist Our Paddle regulars know I have three German wirehaired pointers that are trained (or being trained) to bird hunt. So, at least once a night, I am asked if the quail or duck on the special menu is something that I shot. I always smile, of course and thank them […]
View Post Pheasant Recipeby KATRINA CANDY Monkey III has returned! This is not an announcement of latest big screen simian revolution offering in the Planet of the Apes franchise but I am heralding the return to UK soil of a 325g woodcock which has travelled 4,060 miles to western Russia and back. Monkey III was ringed in Hampshire […]
View Post WoodcockArticle by Phil Bourjaily Two years ago I shot a rooster pheasant that would qualify for any Boone and Crockett bird record book. Its freakish 29 1⁄2-inch tail feather was a lock to win a snowblower or shotgun in any local pheasant-feather contest. I was a few years too late. No one holds tail-feather contests in […]
View Post Iowa Hunting, Pheasant HuntingWestern Minnesota was once a destination for hunters each fall as they set out to hunt ring-necked pheasants. Hotel and motel rooms would fill up on the weekends, restaurants were full each early morning as hunters prepared for the day’s hunt, and bars and restaurants saw good business each evening as they returned after a […]
View Post Minnesota Bird Hunting, Pheasant HuntingBy Charles Moore In Westminster on Tuesday, there was a Mass Rally for Nature. You cannot be blamed if you didn’t notice it, because the “mass” element was missing. Only 350 people took part. This might seem surprising. After all, the rally was backed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which claims […]
View Post grouseBy ED GODFREY – Monday, December 8, 2014 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma’s two-month pheasant season has opened, but the ringneck population hasn’t rebounded as well as the bobwhite quail. While the early season quail hunting has been excellent, hunters can expect the pheasant hunting to be about the same as last year, which is not very good, The quail […]
View Post Oklahoma Pheasant Huntingby: DENNISANDERSON In advance of the Pheasant Summit to be held Saturday in Marshall, upland hunters appear to be split into two camps. One suggests the effort is a waste of time, and that any benefit of the gathering will accrue not to pheasants, but to Gov. Mark Dayton and his Department of Natural Resources, whose appearances and […]
View Post Minnesota Bird Hunting, Upland Bird ConservationLeading figures from the agriculture sector and representatives from several nature conservation groups gathered on an environmental “exemplar” farm to start the build-up to the Big Farmland Bird Count 2015. The count, the second to be organised by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), is scheduled to take place between February 7 and February […]
View Post Wildlife ConservationBy Mary Bowerman, WASHINGTON, D.C. – With six months until an administrative rule on whether the Gunnison sage-grouse will be protected under the Endangered Species Act, a new piece of legislation is ramping up efforts to delay a listing for 10 years. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, introduced the Sage Grouse Protection and Conservation Act on […]
View Post Endangered Species, Sage GrouseBy Rob Thornberry – The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has started one of the largest sharp-tailed grouse studies of its kind in the foothills east of Idaho Falls. Department officials, led by Utah State University’s master’s candidate Matt Proett, have fitted more than 80 grouse with radio transmitters. The goal is to find where […]
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