Episode 15: American Woodcock

Hank will be joined by Kevin Kossowan, host and creator of TV’s From the Wild, and Minnesota DNR biologist Bailey Petersen. They’ll talk about the spruce grouse — the odd member of the grouse family, which is largely taken for granted among American and Canadian hunters.

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Our last huntable native pigeon, the band-tailed pigeon is an obsession of Hank’s — he tries to hunt them every year. The limit is two per day and the season is only nine days long but hunting them puts you into the High Sierra in fall, a gorgeous time of year to hunt a gorgeous bird.

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Scaled quail are perhaps the quail that runs the most, making them especially challenging to hunt. Ryan knows these birds as well as anyone, and we go deep into how to chase them, what makes them tick and how to cook them.

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