South Dakota prairie land in danger of losing hunter's paradise

[oldandnew]

I did release 25 huns a year for a few years trying to get them restablished. That did not work but other than that I don't ever release birds.

Huns are like ghosts. You probably have to good of cover for those boogers.

 

[haymaker]

Huns are like ghosts. You probably have to good of cover for those boogers.

Some of the huns I released seemed like good wild birds. Some as soon as I released them I knew they weren't going to make it. We don't have the same kind of habitat that we used to. We are like Iowa now lots of corn and beans instead of wheat and oats and barley. I do not know whether we can support htem any more or not. I would like to try with actual wild birds. Who knows where I could get any of them.

 

[mnmthunting]

Huns are really good at traveling until they find suitable habitat. they like feeding in grain fields but will spend 90 percent of their time in the grasslands. Huns want nothing to do with heavy grasses, much better in the short grass prairies.

 

[haymaker]

I tried to release them near wheat stubble and pasture. If they went somewhere else and flourished that is fine. I am not sure that we have a place where they can flourish.