Upland

A male prairie chicken doing a mating dance in Nebraska.
The Boom Heard Across the Prairie

A chance to watch the spring mating rites of the Greater Prairie-Chicken The genus name…

a sharp-tailed grouse dancing in a field during bird counts.
Understanding How Bird Counts are Conducted

Understanding all aspects of North American bird counts Whether we like to admit it or…

a Hungarian partridge walking through cover in the winter.
Hungarian Partridge (Perdix perdix) – The Non-Native Gray Partridge

An overview of the exotic Hungarian Partridge As you would expect from its name, the…

A blue grouse in the woods.
Splitting the Blue Grouse into the Sooty and Dusky Grouse

Learn why the blue grouse was split into two subspecies as well as identifying birds…

A male sooty grouse displaying feathers.
Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) – The Rare Blue Grouse Subspecies

Hunting the ever-challenging coastal Blue Grouse known as the sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) The sooty…

A male dusky grouse displaying
Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) – A Blue Grouse Life History

Chasing one of the two elusive blue grouse in the mountains on North America The…

A pudlepointer and English pointer out bird hunting.
Hunting with a Pointer and Flusher at the Same Time

Learning about the sometimes complicated world of hunting with both a flusher and pointer at…

Two bird hunters get ready at a truck to go hunt quail in California.
Hunter Recruitment: How Bird Hunting is Helping in the R3 Fight

Bird hunting is at the forefront of hunter recruitment in the United States. Doom and…

a bird hunter with his English setter hunting woodcock in Vermont
Scott McEnaney – Orvis – #HealthyForests – Ruffed Grouse Society

Scott McEnaney is a local President of the Southern Vermont Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse…

An upland hunting guide with double barrel shotgun
Earl the Pearl – A #LivetheUplands Film

Pineridge Grouse Camp, in association with Federal Premium Ammunition and Purina Pro Plan, presents a…

A Sharp-tailed grouse doing a mating dance in a field
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) – A Prairie Grouse Overview

What do you know about the northern prairie grouse known as the sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus…

A bird hunter and bird dog during it's first hunting season.
Setting Expectations for Your Dogs First Hunting Season

Taking the lessons from a first bird hunting season with a bird dog The young…

A woman bird hunting out west with an Arrietta shotgun.
Gun not for Sale – An Arrieta Shotgun Legacy Story

Why I would never sell my Arrieta side-by-side shotgun. I cannot recollect where I was…

A male Gambel's Quail walks on a desert landscape
Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii) – Desert Quail Life History and Biology

The Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii) is found in the American southwest and into Mexico as…

A bobwhite quail walking in habitat
Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) – Northern Quail Life History and Biology

The complicated story of the once plentiful Northern Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) and its decline…

A Male Mearns quail game bird
Mearns Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) – Overview of the Montezuma Quail in America

The Mearns quail, which is often called the Montezuma quail, is a rare site in…

a campfire late at night at the Pineridge grouse camp.
Noise by the Fire – A #LivetheUplands Film

Pineridge Grouse Camp presents, in association with Federal Premium Ammunition and Purina Pro Plan, the…

A hunter holds up a rooster while pheasant hunting
Places Pheasant Hide During the Hunting Season

Figuring out where pressured ring-necked pheasant hide during the hunting season can give you an…

A bird dog on point in thick cover
Hard Lesson Learned on Wind Direction and Hunting Dogs

A hard lesson learned about wind direction for a first time hunting dog handler In…

A hunter holds up a chukar from a preserve hunt
Adapted Upland Traditions – Upland Preserves

The importance of Upland Preserves in our hunting community. With an avid outdoorsman for a…

A group of hunters walk into woodcock habitat
Targeting Worms with GIS Soil Data to find Woodcock Habitat

A Connecticut woodsman tests theories of targeting worms for good Woodcock habitat If I could…