Banding birds has a long and interesting history that was practiced as far back as 218 B.C. by Roman foot soldiers.

The data from banding game birds is analyzed yearly and is an essential part of determining hunting regulation development as well as for detecting changes in population sizes.  Data from banding can be used to evaluate hunting pressure, estimate productivity and survival and determine how vulnerable different ages and sexes are to hunting pressure.

Learn something every day!  Check out the Delta Waterfowl website for more info.

The Lone Star State boasts some of the finest hunting anywhere in the country, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Big Time Texas Hunts (BTTH) offer hunters a chance to experience the best of the best.  The crown jewel of the program is the Texas Grand Slam hunt package, which includes four separate hunts for Texas’ most prized big game animals — the desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, mule deer and pronghorn antelope. There are also several quality whitetail hunt packages available, as well as opportunities to pursue alligator, exotic big game, waterfowl and upland game birds.

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This is an amateur video production but looks like it has some great footage.  DVD includes antelope hunting in eastern Montana, waterfowl hunting in western Montana, gopher shooting, and fishing for trophy bull trout in Montana's bob marshal wilderness and much more.

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Recently, the TexasHuntFish team went to the Heart of Texas Chapter Delta Waterfowl Banquet in Austin, Texas. 

We had a great time and were lucky enough to have the opportunity to listen to champion duck caller Kelly Haydel, of Haydel's Game Calls, give a little duck calling lesson to the Delta Waterfowl members that attended that evening.

Hope you enjoy the video.

CLICK HERE to check out photos, read more about the night's event and learn how to join Delta Waterfowl.

not illegal, you can shoot any non-game or non-native species at night, for example, coyote, bobcat, hog, axis, fallow, sika, any ram other than Desert Big Horn (which has other restrictions also.)

You can not shoot animals like whitetail, pronghorn, mule, turkey, dove, quail, duck, geese at night.

This is a very high level summary, there are specific details on the Texas Parks & Wildlife Website.

jason