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, ...

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 ...

Nicknamed the "devil bird," the chukar is not for the fair-weather hunter. These game birds introduced from the Middle East and southern Asia thrive in the steep slopes and treacherous terrain of the ...

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 ...