Hunting pheasants on Fish and Game’s wildlife management areas is a popular fall tradition for upland bird hunters. To ...

Dozens of hunters gathered along Old Maple Hill Road. After collecting their shotguns, ammo and other gear, they made their way across 200 yards of open field. In the center was a tower. Inside the ...

Animal rights activists attempting to thwart a pheasant hunt cut open a holding pen at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area, but state game officials say only a handful of birds escaped. According to ...

IPSWICH, S.D. -- A rooster jetted out of the corn stalks as soon as Mike Ward and Jax, his German shorthaired pointer, pushed into the crop a quarter-mile away. The bird flew low and straight, rising ...

New York state lawmakers are going after an unexpected political issue: pen-raised pheasants. The bill, known as New York A888, was introduced on January 8, 2025 by three democratic assemblymembers: ...

CORVALLIS – “You get gored (pecked) and spurred, and then you bleed. It’s quite an experience being a pheasant wrangler,” Ron Bramlett said. He should know. The wildlife habitat technician with the ...

Some upland bird hunters like their pheasants wild. Others don’t care where the rock-star game birds originate as long as they’re in the field and ready to fly when the Eastern Washington season opens ...

A pen holding pheasants at E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area north of Corvallis was vandalized on the evening of Sept. 17. Vandals cut a hole in the pen, and about 15 birds being held for upcoming pheasant ...

MANHATTAN – Every so often, the hushed sound of scurrying birds is punctuated by a piercing call: the short, two-note sound a pheasant rooster makes when it’s flushed from the ground. This is where ...

Making changes to the early lives of young pheasants can help prevent them dying needlessly, researchers have found. Giving pheasants raised perches in their pens during their first seven weeks helps ...