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Button Quail	Canada Goose	Chukar
Duck	Gambel's Quail	Mallard Duck
Partridge	Pheasant	Turkey
Wild Turkey	Wood Duck

Long before American settlers, survivalists, marketers, and sport gunsmen hunted winged meat or game birds. Once abundant, wild fowl greatly declined. In the 1900’s, market hunting and spring shooting were banned; annual seasons and daily bag limits were established for sport hunters, but these actions failed to stop the decline. Nowadays, commercial breeders keep and raise pheasants, quail, partridges, peacocks, pigeons, doves, waterfowl—ducks, swans, geese, turkeys, grouse, and prairie chickens to supply today’s sport hunters.