(FOX40.COM) –The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced high expectations for the upcoming hunting season with an above-average abundance of quail and chukar. California has three native ...

With its distinctive topknot, the California or Valley quail looks more like a fanciful partridge in a pear tree than it does a real bird, but it is real. It’s also thriving and, unlike most other ...

The statewide hunting season for ruffed and blue grouse, as well as mourning doves, opened Sept. 1, and the season for most ...

A covey of gambel’s quail scurrying through the desert with their topknots bobbing is a common sight in parts of the southwest. Adapted to live in arid climates, the gambel’s is especially associated ...

Many newcomers flocked to the Billings area during and following the pandemic, including some California quail. Billings Gazette photographer Larry Mayer recently captured shots of a covey of the ...