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Waterfowl
Hunting with Aim Adventures
Waterfowl or wildfowl, also waterbirds, is the collective
term for the approximately 147 species of swans, geese
and ducks, classified in the family Anatidae. Wildfowl
usually live on wetlands.
Here are a few hunts we can arrange for you: Black Brant,
duck, geese, dove, quail and more!!!
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Upland Hunting with
Aim Adventures
Upland game is an American term which refers to those
game birds hunted with pointing breeds, flushing spaniels,
and retrievers which are not water fowl. Upland game include
the following:
- Pheasant
- Bobwhite Quail
- Grouse
- Hungarian Partridge
- Chukar
- California Quail
- Snipe
- Woodcock
- Scaled Quail
- Prairie Chicken
Upland hunting is an American
term for a form of bird hunting in which the hunter pursues
upland birds including quail, pheasant, grouse, prairie
chicken, chuckar, and others. Upland hunters generally
employ the use of gun dogs to find and retrieve game.
Upland birds tend to be
found on the ground in heavy cover. Dogs find the bird
by scent and force them to fly. The hunter then attempts
to shoot the birds on the wing. This is also known as
wingshooting.
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ABOUT THE ELK
Elk (in North American English) are an Old World deer
species that originated in Eurasia and spread to North
America, crossing the Bering Land Bridge during the ice
age. They are also known as wapiti, a Shawnee name meaning
'white rump'. The original meaning of Elk, and the meaning
of the word in British English, is the European variant
animal referred to in North America as the Moose Alces
alces.
North American elk were
once considered a species separate from the Eurasian red
deer. Scientists now consider the North American elk and
Eurasian red deer to be the same, though distinctions
between the two live on in the language. The term wapiti
applies to the North American elk and to the wapiti-like
red deer subspecies in Eastern Asia where the males resemble
the North American elk in their antler structure and mating
calls. The American elk, along with Sichuan deer, Alashan
wapiti, and Manchurian wapiti were once collectively classified
as Cervus canadensis, and the remaining subspecies being
classified as Cervus elaphus.
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Bactrian deer, although
much smaller in size than the American elk and more red-deer
like, are sometimes called wapiti due to the coloration
of the male deer's coat and rump-patch, which may resemble
that of a male elk. European red deer will interbreed
with American elk, when penned together, and the offspring
are fertile. Remnants of the elk population that moved
easterly into North American from the Bering Land Bridge
also moved westerly back into Asia, and there are existing
populations in mountainous Central Asia that resemble,
if not identical to, the North American elk. These Siberian
elk, along with the American elk, are the only red deer
subspecies where female deer and calves also carry neck
manes. Also, unlike most red deer subspecies, female deer
grow close to the male deer in size.
Elk weigh 230 to 450 kg
(500 to 1,000 lb.) and stand 0.75-1.5 m (2.5-5 ft.) high
at the shoulder. Their antlers usually measure 1 to 1.5
m across, tip to tip. Males weigh more than females, but
the difference is less compared with other red deer subspecies
where the males may weigh twice as much as females.
North American elk are the largest of the Red Deer. The
American elk terminology is different from the European,
as the males are called bulls, the females are called
cows, rather than stags and hinds, respectively. The terminology
of stag for males, hind for females, generally applies
to all red deer subspecies of Europe, Asia (including
the elk/wapiti populations that live in Central Asia)
and North Africa. These terms could be applied to elk/wapiti
populations in North America, but this is rarely the case.
Likewise, the terms bulls and cows can be applied to the
elk/wapiti populations that live in Central Asia. Elk/wapiti
offspring are called calves and red deer offspring can
be called either fawns or calves.
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The vocal apparatus and
mating call of the elk is also different from that of
the red deer, in that the elk "bugle" as opposed
to "roaring". This is an adaptation to the more
open (less thickly wooded) environment of the elk, allowing
high-pitched sounds to travel further. Asian red deer
and Asian wapiti-like red deer have mating calls that
may resemble either European red deer, American elk, or
both. Vocal apparatus and mating calls are unique to each
red deer subspecies. The Central Asian highland red deer
subspecies, such as the Kashmir stag, due to their mountainous
habitat, may have mating calls that resemble both European
red deer and American elk. The Manchurian wapiti is similar
in ecology to European red deer in occupying dense forests.
Its mating call is a "bugle" like the American
elk, but distinctive in sound from the American elk due
to their forested habitat. (Great book sources for wapiti
and red deer are Elk Country and Deer of the World, both
books written by Dr. Valerius Geist).
The current elk population
of the United States is estimated to be about one-tenth
of the historic level. The population along with most
other North American game animals reached a low point
around 1900. However populations have rebounded with controls
on hunting. There were estimated to be 782,500 elk in
North America in 1989. About 72,000 then lived in Canada.
Some 20,000 are in ranches where they are raised for meat,
antlers, or for hunting.
One of the most important
uses of farmed or ranched elk is production of Velvet
antler. Most elk live in the west, especially the Rocky
Mountain region. As of 2005 approximately 7,500 elk live
in the wild in the United States east of the Mississippi
River and that population is spread over seven states.
The population is similarly small in eastern Canada. However,
both areas have in very recent years experienced a good
population growth and even dispersal into wide areas that
the elk were not originally transplanted to. It should
be noted that of the aforementioned eastern U.S. population,
5,500 are found in the state of Kentucky, which has a
tremendously successful restoration program and whose
herd has been growing at the yearly rate of 15%.
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