Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

Hunting, field trials, dog training ... each has a language all its own and understanding it will lead to more success.

Wetland habitat is decreasing by an average of 80,000 acres per year across the United States.

A statewide effort to capture wild turkey hens and fit them with leg bands to obtain accurate data on survival and harvest is underway.

Next time your dog disobeys you, don’t jump to the inevitable conclusion. It may not be recalcitrance. He may not be stubborn. He probably can’t hear your commands.

Archers wishing to keep their skills in tune over the winter can participate in free archery leagues offered by New Hampshire's Fish and Game Department.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard has announced the formation of a task force to find a balance between modern agricultural practices and wildlife-oriented land conservation.

Couple says they didn't discover the 84-plus alligators on land next to their homestead until four years after they bought the property in southwest Mississippi.

Sure, clay target practice is good. But the rubber meets the road when you’re in the field. That’s where you need to put a bird on the ground for your hunting dog.

The recent trend in waterfowl loads seems to adhere to a mantra of “faster is better.” But is that really true?

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says hunting for ducks and geese should be good as long as waters remain open.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is offering instructional videos for waterfowl hunters on YouTube.

There's a population explosion of large, wild animals in the Virginia woods, and it's not the cute, doe-eyed kind that conjures images of Bambi.

The hunting seasons for pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse close statewide on Jan. 5.

How Browning’s two newest semi-autos stack up against each other.

More than two decades ago Alaska Native youths helped scientists capture and band geese to address declining numbers of migratory waterfowl in the state's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Oklahoma's Grand National Quail Hunt is about hunting, quail and economics.

A population of roving turkeys on Staten Island has become a mess-making, traffic-stopping scourge to some residents.

Is the word "redneck" an offensive slur? A Florida school thought so and made a student change out of his Duck Dynasty shirt that used it.

ElRay Bridges currently has 13 varieties of pheasants, but over the years has raised around 24 varieties.

Ever post your hunting pictures online and had some "friend" show up in your spot the next day? Here's the good, the bad and the ugly of cyber-scouting.

It’s a fact — nothing works all the time. And in no situation is this statement more valid than in goose hunting. Early season, mid-season, late season; it doesn’t matter.

Bears eat a Honda Element, Tink’s offers a sneak peak at exciting new products, and the wild turkey population is an American success story.

Bob Borman continues to cling to a dying tradition. He remembers days when little country cafes were filled with orange-clad hunters at this time of the year, when brushy fields were alive with quail, when the season opener was a major event.

A look at how the Meindl Perfekt hunting boot fits and performs.

Father Hupp Wildlife Management Area in southeast Nebraska's Thayer County has reopened to public use.

Hunting is big business in Minnesota, with nearly 500,000 people expected to head into the woods this year.

At least 75 people are set to join the second annual Northeast Georgia Ultimate Adventure Deer Hunt.

The reports keep coming in: deer, ducks and Eastern wild turkeys killed in a wave of poaching that state conservation rangers in the Augusta area expect to increase.

Donations of venison to a program that helps feed the hungry in North Dakota have declined, but the recent addition of goose meat to the Sportsmen Against Hunger program is helping to make up the difference.