Oct. 5—North Dakota's regular pheasant season opens Saturday, Oct. 12. Here's what you need to know. * Saturday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise ...

With summer pheasant brood counts up from last year, how do North Dakota’s pheasant hunting prospects look as the Oct. 7 season opener approaches? In a nutshell, they look pretty good – especially in ...

North Dakota pheasant counts were similar to 2024 during late July and August roadside surveys, the Game and Fish Department reported Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. In this week’s “North Dakota Outdoors” ...

Ashley, N.D. - This is the way pheasant hunting is supposed to look: An endless canvas of North Dakota grass, a blaze-orange ribbon of hunters moving across the land, a trio of dogs working ahead of ...

Jun. 26—BISMARCK — North Dakota's spring pheasant counts are up 6% statewide from last year, the Game and Fish Department said Thursday, June 26, in reporting results from its 2025 spring crowing ...

A cold, wet June in North Dakota impacted Hungarian partridge and sharp-tailed grouse numbers and led to smaller brood sizes for pheasants, though pheasant numbers overall were up for a third straight ...

Oct. 7—BISMARCK — Widespread drought in 2021 hampered pheasant habitat and production in North Dakota, resulting in one of the lowest pheasant harvests in the past decade, but all signs point to a ...

* South-central North Dakota had little rain this summer. Grasslands hunted in past years were too short or sparse this fall, or had been mowed for hay. We hunted a lot of standing corn, moving ...

Pheasant hunting seasons get underway this month in Minnesota and the Dakotas. While pheasant harvests have declined from a recent peak about 15 years ago, numbers in South Dakota and North Dakota had ...

BISMARCK, N.D. | North Dakota ring-neck pheasant numbers are down slightly due to harsh winter conditions but lush nesting habitat this summer should bolster the birds' population by the fall hunting ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Pheasant hunting is a part of the lifestyle in South Dakota. “This is when we really roll out the orange carpet,” said Nick Harrington, communications manager for South Dakota Game ...