America’s legion of devout bird hunters spends much of the year training and working gun dogs, so many of them are forever chasing open seasons from the prairies of the Dakotas where sharptails, ...

I've been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a weimaraner named Remington. Together, we'd shoot pheasants busted from fencerows in the agriculture lands of ...

CHIX COULEE — Out west, where rain comes in traces and dust is measured by the inch, the cycle of life is difficult to measure and lessons are hard-learned. With rare exceptions, the Canyon Country ...

The High Desert Chapter of Quail Forever members have been busy. As of this week, its volunteer members have added over 5,000 gallons of water to 18 different small game guzzlers, or water catchments, ...

Few things can cause a sportsman’s heart rate to spike like the whir of wing beats from a flushing quail or chukar partridge, especially when the bird erupts from a small piece of cover within mere ...

Some in my acquaintance call it, indelicately, a kitchen pass or a get-out-of-jail card, this occasional requirement for an excuse to do something extraordinary in the outdoors. But a smarter man ...

When the first families of baby quail appear, it is the beginning of the most active period here in the desert for these beautiful birds. It's heart-warming to watch mom and dad and the newly hatched ...

This story, “Ducks Plus,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. My friend Vic was taking me duck hunting in a jeep that jounced and bumped through weird desert coun­try south of Sasabe in ...

Where fresh food is scarce, these girls have an organic garden and quail farm. In the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, a group of bright young girls are looking to build and feed their community -- one ...

The Arizona border is home to three species of quail: Mearns, Gambels and Scaled. Submitted photo I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a weimaraner named ...