Watch one in the spring-time, when he is roaming the woods in search of a mate, and you will see that he is every inch a game bird--a king of game birds too.
It belongs to a family of game birds, but it is a shame to shoot such a mite of a bird for the morsel of meat its tiny body affords--hardly one mouthful.
Game birds as a whole are those chiefly useful as food, and the hunting of them is the occupation of sportsmen.
Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birdsby standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
I may mention Marshall and Hume's Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, with its large number of coloured plates.
The Bustards These come within the category of "game birds," and so none of them are treated of in this book.
The Killdeer Plover, perhaps from his close kinship to the fraternity of game birds, has come to regard man and all human devices with deep suspicion, and to get on terms of close fellowship with him is no easy matter.
The two yellow-legs are still left on our list of game birds, because their numbers do not seem to decrease much in spite of the large numbers that are killed every year by sportsmen.
Stilt sandpipers were formerly sold in the markets, mixed with bunches of summer yellow-legs, but their sale is now prohibited, and they are too small to be considered as game birds.
It ranks ahead of all other shore birds and upland game birds except, possibly, the woodcock, ruffed grouse, and quail.
Because migratory flocks pass over the State flying south in the fall, and because the many sloughs, swamps, and shallow lakes form ideal breeding and feeding places, North Dakota has an abundance of game birds.
Sportsmen's clubs have taken an active part in the protection of game birds, providing food for them in winter and sponsoring projects to give them more adequate shelter.
Beaver and otter swam the streams, flocks of game birds hid in the breaks, droves of elk, deer, and antelope fed along the Little Missouri, and huge herds of buffalo often darkened the prairie above the valley.
Game birds abound in this region, however, and with the restoration of their breeding places they are now being propagated in huge numbers on the many reserves.
As various forms of game birdsor animals showed indications of decreasing in numbers new laws were called into existence in an attempt to conserve the supply for the benefit of the people.
So important and yet so unexpected is the ultimate effect of the activities of predatory creatures that in a state of nature I am convinced the supply of game birds is increased rather than decreased by being preyed upon.
Robins and Mourning Doves, for example, are still shot in some of the Southern States as game birds.
I had seen my first grouse, the king of game birds.
This group ofgame birds will be the first to be exterminated in North America as a group.
Otherwise birds are increasing rather than otherwise, especially the small non-game birds.
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