GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air was ...

Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

Sunday will find the steamy, buggy upland forest in full, dense foliage, ruffed grouse generally still clustered in far-flung family groups and woodcock numbers weeks away from being augmented by ...

The lack of heavy rains, late-season cold snaps, or serious droughts in Carlton County this year could result in a healthy grouse hunting season, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 13. "I'm predicting ...

These are only some of the pitfalls of early-season upland hunting here in Michigan. Sept. 15 marks this year’s grouse and ...

A national survey of woodcock hunters has found little support for a proposed woodcock stamp that would raise money for woodcock habitat work in Midwest and Southern states. The survey was done ...

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana–If really a woodcock hunter, you have to hunt Louisiana. As the weather gets colder and the ground freezes, woodcock migrate south, leaving northern states like Pennsylvania for ...

DRUMMOND, Wis. — What a difference a few ounces makes. Woodcock hunters haven’t received the flak that mourning dove hunters have for hunting small game birds, even though the American woodcock only ...

Migratory bird hunting season has opened in parts of Connecticut, and state environmental officials are reminding ...

PRINCETON, Maine -- The myth of the great north is that it's the land of big trees and grand old forests. Oh, you'll see a few tall flaming maples and birches along the roadside in Downeast Maine this ...