Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks recently completed annual pheasant brood survey shows a 76% increase over last year's counts. Rooster!

Scott Linden and Buddy explain the best ways to help your hunting dog handle a pinned bird.

When it’s time to add a new hunting dog to the household, how do you decide where to start?

The museum features mounts of more than 60 species of waterfowl, all collected by Craig Swenson, an avid sportsman.

Lists do help. You don't want to be 200 miles from home on bird hunt and realize you forgot your shotgun.

If you can appreciate the experience of duck hunting as much as or more than the body count, try a trip to Maine for an unforgettable eider hunt.

Brought back from astonishingly low numbers in Maine, the common eider is a true conservation success story.

If you're not on The X, get up and move to it! That's often possible with a portable blind.

A hunter who grew up hunting ducks on San Juan Island discovers that the "island way" doesn't always work on the mainland.

Michigan lawmakers are expected to pass a law to keep intact the state's power to allow wolf hunts.

You gotta hand it to the little rascal, he is persistent — and kudos to the angler who caught a much better video than his diminutive fish.

Knowing how the birds react to snow, rain, floods, droughts and more is key to successful scouting. Here's where to find ducks in any weather.

Too often when we try for a double, it means two misses. We often start looking for a second bird before we’ve shot the first.

Benelli's new Ethos is a semi-auto built for form as much as function — and it eliminates the "Benelli click."

Thinking about playing some of the dog games? Field trial, hunt test, NSTRA or NAHRA, each has its merits. These terms will help you fit in a bit faster.

Biologists can't stop bad weather, but they can find better ways to account for how it, as well as predation and disease, affect the deer herd.

This year’s much-talked-about Farm Bill is mostly good news for ducks. Here are our picks for the best and worst parts of the bill as it concerns waterfowl.