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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persistent drought is dragging down Arizona quail populations, state wildlife officials say, and could necessitate shorter hunting ...

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, ...

I’ve always thought of birds as being lucky with their almost otherworldly aerial abilities. However, not all of the feathered kind are obsessed with flight, including one iconic species of our ...

My friend Vic was taking me duck hunting in a jeep that jounced and bumped through weird desert coun­try south of Sasabe in Sonora, Mexico. It was hard for me to imagine why a duck or any other ...

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 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 ...

Although a common quail of the desert Southwest, the Gambel’s requires a lot of water. Generally sedentary, it moves short distances in the late summer to form coveys, usually comprising several ...

When leaving my subdivision recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see a Gambel’s Quail. While this is probably a regular occurrence for a lot of you, it is not for me. I live in a subdivision close ...