STARKE - The gaudy-colored ring-necked pheasant leveled off from its flush and stretched out in full flight. Its long-tail waved in new-day golden light, the bird's distinctive staccato cackling ...

A lonely, male ring-neck pheasant moved onto my property in early May. I say lonely in pure human speculation, but also because he is the only pheasant we have seen and his loud penetrating kok-cack ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Pheasant hunters in South Dakota should have a better season this year thanks to an estimated 42 percent jump in the number of birds, state wildlife officials say. The ...

The sun shone weakly in the cloudy sky. A northwest breeze brought a smattering of snowflakes. The ground was covered in 3 inches of snow. It was opening morning of pheasant season in Wyoming's ...

Pheasants are traditional messengers from Heaven in Japanese folklore. So, what happened the day a giant red one appeared in the sky over that island nation? And, what was it? In the year 620 CE, a ...

PIERRE — This year will be season 100 for pheasant hunting in South Dakota. The first, in 1919, lasted one day. Five hundred residents and 500 nonresidents bought licenses. They killed 200 birds that ...

33.5 x 47 cm. (13.2 x 18.5 in.) ...