Iowa’s birds can be traced back to a wind storm in 1901 that damaged William Benton’s private game farm in Cedar Falls, ...

He did some research on the bird, and tells Patch, "The omnivorous Ring-Necked Pheasant is not native to this area, but the species was taken from its native East Asia in the past, and introduced ...

The year 1917 marked Michigan's first official release of pheasants, which were already hybrids from game farms involving Chinese ringneck and Mongolian blood. Subsequent private releases from ...

Pheasants are everywhere. Detroit-based filmmaker Diane Cheklich, who recently completed a film focused on the city’s pheasants, pointed out that Detroit is probably the “only major urban ...

The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets in a ringneck’s vitals to drop the bird immediately. Pheasants are big, tough birds, often shot going away, at distances ...

“This is a pretty unique stocking we’re doing,” Campbell said as game commission staff began popping the doors on crates of mostly female ring-necked pheasants, part of a group of 8,400 ...

Although about 30,000 of ring-necked pheasants were released by the state game commission this year, sightings of ring-necked pheasants in the county have been down. The clearing of fencerows and ...