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

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 ...

A windstorm struck William Benton's Cedar Falls farm in 1900 or 1901, allowing about 2,000 ring-necked pheasants to escape and establish a wild population. The colorful birds thrived in Iowa's oat ...