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Pheasant season closes before other upland birds

Serious hunters with experienced dogs will find good pheasant hunting in pockets of good habitat across Eastern Washington even if the overall spring hatch was poor. (File/ / The Spokesman-Review)
Serious hunters with experienced dogs will find good pheasant hunting in pockets of good habitat across Eastern Washington even if the overall spring hatch was poor. (File/ / The Spokesman-Review)

BIRD HUNTING -- Upland bird hunters should be aware that the Eastern Washington pheasant season closes Jan. 13 while the season for other upland birds -- quail, chukars, Huns -- runs through the Martin Luther King holiday and closes on Jan. 21.

Most waterfowl seasons run through Jan. 27.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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