When the sun comes up Saturday morning, it will mark the beginning of Nevada’s chukar and quail hunting seasons statewide. It also is opening day for waterfowl seasons in the state’s Northwest Zone, ...

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 ...

This was supposed to be an El Niño year, a year when we have great hatches of quail and chukar in our local deserts and mountains, a year when we shoot lots of young, dumb birds. It’s not turning out ...

Hunters need only a valid hunting license to hunt quail, chukar and gray partridge. Chukar and gray partridge seasons run Sept. 21 through Jan. 31 throughout the state. The daily bag limit is eight ...

My neighbor saw it first -- a plump, partridge-size bird, with a red beak and legs and distinct white stripes along its sides. "It's a quail,'' my wife and I both said, knowing the bird didn't really ...

Quail and chukar hunting season opens Saturday throughout California, and the prognosis is for an excellent hunting season, thanks to a good carryover of birds from last year and a terrific hatch of ...

The quail and chukar season opener this past weekend was tough across most of Southern California thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures. Chukar hunters in the Mojave Desert and Red Mountain regions ...

Best news for upland bird hunters in 2016 is an apparent rebound of chukar in the high desert and along the lower John Day and Deschutes canyons. Biologists also report a bump in pheasant numbers in ...