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 ...

is actively seeking area landowners to participate in a study of ring-necked pheasants in the High Plains. The grant comes ...

This year’s survey consisted of 166 routes, each 25 miles long, with 148 routes located in the ring-necked pheasant range. Observers drive each route in early morning and record the number and ...

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 ...