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 ...

Deb Haaland: Learn from the past | Miyoko Chu: Desert birds at risk | Scott Weidensaul: Changes in migration | Clay Henderson: Bird count warnings | Rodney Siegel: The value of parks | Amy Davis: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not Brewster again, Bruce, I don’t know what is going on in your town, but between hearing about peacocks, white turkeys, something called a “Tennessee Red Quail” and now this unusual bird, I’m ...

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 ...

The Arizona border is home to three species of quail. Submitted photo. I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a Weimaraner named Remington. Together, we’d ...

More than 100 years ago, biologists conducted a thorough survey of birds in the Mojave Desert. A recent resurvey shows that the species richness of the desert habitat has dropped by 43 percent over ...

Careful design of a wildlife population monitoring strategy is necessary to obtain accurate and precise results whether the purpose of the survey is development of habitat suitability models, to ...

Bird communities in the Mojave Desert straddling the California/Nevada border have collapsed over the past 100 years, most likely because of lower rainfall due to climate change, according to a new ...