Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-10-14
Pheasant May Be
Taken In Certain
Places Saturday
Duck Shooting Now in
Progress Gives Hunters
Good Target Practice.

With the duck season opening last
Saturday to continue until November
z and the pheasant season opening
in several counties throughout the
state Saturday noon, hunting en-
thusiaSts are at the height of their
which prevents their happiness being
complete is the fact that pheasants
may only be shot during three days
and only five hours on each of those
days. This ruling is due to recent
survey which showed shortage of
the most delectable of the states
feathered game. Shooting of pleas
ants each of the three days must be
confined TO the hours between IL m.
and p. m.
Fifty-two of Minnesota's 81 coun-
ties are open to pheasant hunting
this season. They are Traverse,
Grant, Douglas, Big Stone, Stevens,
Pope, Stearns, Sherburne, Swift,
Kandiyohi, Meeker, Wright, Henne-
pin, Anoka, Washington, Lac qui
Parle, Chippewa, Yellow Medicine,
Renville, Mcleod, Carver, Lincoln,
Lyon, Redwood, Brown, Nicollett,
Sibley, LeSueur, Scott, Rice, Dakota,
Goodhue, Wabasha, Pipestone, Muir
ray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue
Earth, Waseca, Steele, Dodge, Ohm
sted, Winona, Rock, Mobiles, Jack
son, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn,
Mower, Fillmore and Houston. All
other counties are closed
Three male birds or two males and
one female may be taken by one per-
son in any one day. Five male birds
or four males and one female may
be in possession of one person at any
one time. The season limit is 10
male birds or eight males and two
female birds per person.
Must Know Your Ducks.
There is considerable difficulty in
distinguishing the various species of
wild ducks while in flight SO hunters
are advised by authorities to famil-
iarize themselves with markings and
flight characteristics of the protected
species.
A duck stamp which may be Sc
cured at any post office must be at
tached to each duck hunters license
to avoid arrest and the daily bag of
migratory waterfowl is Is birds in
the aggregate with not more than
10 to be ducks, not more than four
geese, not more than IL Wilson's Snipe
or jacksnipe and not more than IL
combination rails and gallinules. The
possession limit for migratory game
birds is 80 in the aggregate of all
kinds of which not more than 10
shall be ducks, not more than five
shall be geese, not more than Is
shalls be coots, not more than Is
shall be Wilson's snipe or jacksnipe
and not more than Is shall be COM
bination of rails and gallinules.
Protected Species Described.
To aid hunters the following de-
scriptions of protected wild ducks
were furnished by the Division of
Game and Fish:
Wood duck-A medium-sized duck
brakes are brilliantly colored and
have an easily recognized crest
Females are plain colored, have a
white eye ring, white line back
of the eye, a dark breast and light
underparts. The wing has silvered
outer edge and a conspicuous white
tip to the inner flight feathers. Has
a plaintive, squeaking call.
Buffle head duck-A small duck.
Male appears largely white. The back
is black. The head is also black with
a conspicuous white area covering
the side of the head, back of the eyes.
The lower neck, breast and under
parts are all white. In flight the
wings are largely white. Female is
dull colored with a small white patch
on the side of the head and a small
patch of white on the wing. The
underparts are light. Young males
resemble the females.
Ruddy duck-A small plump
bodied duck Drake is bright rusty
red color in the spring, but in the
fall is grayish-brown with whitish
cheeks and chin. The underparts
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