Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is promoting hunting by young people with the Governor's Youth Turkey Hunt this spring.

Finishing geese is a matter of learning how to read a flock’s body language.

The area attracts osprey, teal, marsh wrens and other wildlife.

Bullfrogs can be hunted in Arkansas from April to December each year. Eighteen a day can be bagged for personal use.

Hunters under age 16 need a youth spring turkey permit; hunters age 16 and older need a spring turkey permit.

The agency is asking Utah residents to adopt the chicks in May and raise the birds until fall, when they will be released into wilderness areas established by the division.

Willie and Korie Roberston are proud of their work, family, and faith. As season 5 comes to a close the couple reflects on where they've been and what the future may hold.

From big horn sheep predation, to mountain lions attacking tranquilized elk, to Californians dealing with the family dog being dragged from the backyard, there is a real need for hunting mountain lions.

The Pope & Young Club has announced that Jim Willems of New Mexico has been elected as the new president of the club, replacing Roger Atwood of Idaho.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation order is allowing hunters to shoot snow geese this spring.

Last year, spring wild turkey hunters in Illinois bagged more than 14,000 turkeys in Illinois, including those taken during youth seasons.

Hunting Canada geese over water in Kansas is not your typical waterfowling.

It starts with minimizing the strain on thigh and calf muscles by stepping over, not on top of, logs and rocks.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says turkey hunting season begins March 22 and runs through May 15.

North Dakota hunters who didn't land spring wild turkey licenses in the lottery drawing have a chance to try again for a permit.

This year's deep snow and extreme cold have taken a toll on Minnesota wildlife, especially swans and other waterfowl that can't find open water on the state's many frozen lakes.

Sound-alike conflicts are a major bugaboo. Many of our commands can sound like names. Call your setter "Beau," and he might "whoa" when you want him to hunt on.

There was a time when it was rare for someone to kill a buck, and the greatest sin a deer hunter could commit was to shoot a doe. Now, as a general rule, hunters can't shoot enough does and we are debating issues such as buck limits and antler restrictions.

Mississippi's spring turkey hunting season runs March 15 to May 1.

First-time turkey hunters will get a chance to learn the basics at a free seminar being held in Vermont this spring.

Waterbirds such as grebes, mergansers and loons are struggling, too, because their normal areas of open water have frozen over.

An 11-year-old girl shot a cougar that was following her 14-year-old brother to their home in north central Washington, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said.

Wisconsin's wild turkeys are struggling to survive this year's harsh winter.

Make a list of skills you think you have down pat. Then add another column with ways to make them harder, in increments, and you'll keep your dog firing on all eight cylinders.

For Duncan Russell, 14, of Brandon, snipe hunting is no joke. "Nobody really believes you until you go hunt and come back with them," Russell said.

Scott Linden and "Buddy" discuss ways to effectively slow down your dog and flush out more birds.

Basic technique and equipment will help you arrow your bird.

If you’ve patterned your shotgun, you know an improved cylinder choke at 30 yards only makes a pattern about three feet in diameter.

The DNR has just released its 2014 catalog of events for the program, which offers a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities for women and their families who want to learn how to hunt, fish or develop other outdoor skills.