As the pickup slides to a stop in a remote corner of Elko County, I can’t help but chuckle. There in the dusty cloud kicked up by the truck’s tires is a gathering of critters strolling casually along ...

Seasons for two upland game birds — chukar and Hungarian partridge — open today in Idaho and next Saturday in Utah. Opening days usually bring a flurry of hunter activity. Forest grouse gives people ...

Nevada’s most popular upland game birds long have been the Gambel’s quail and the chukar partridge. The No. 1 spot among bird hunters is often the subject of debate, though anecdotal evidence tends to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MESA COUNTY — Despite an abundance of quality habitat, the first indicator of our prey turned out to be a large man in a blaze orange hoodie riding shotgun ...

Bob Karcz, photographer, sent me this lovely photograph of a partridge he photographed in his backyard in Silverthorne. During a cold winter day, they puffed up to keep warm. He identified it as a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GUNNISON GORGE NCA — It’s been said more than once and by more than a few that the reason we fish for trout is because they live in such beautiful places.

The number of chukar partridge has skyrocketed in many places in Utah this year. The general hunt starts Sept. 26. During a recent helicopter survey over central Tooele County, wildlife biologists saw ...

A chukar partridge – possibly an escapee from a hunting club – has taken up residence in a Prior Lake neighborhood. Chukar (rhymes with “trucker”) partridges are exotic in Minnesota – they aren’t ...

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ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region - Nearly 100 male chukar partridges were brought to a primitive arena in the Kurdistan Region's northern border city of Zakho for a bird fight on Friday, a brutal practice that ...