Our 2025 upland bird hunting forecast is here! The reason we’re so excited? Bird populations are the best they’ve been in the last 4-5 years, and there’s lots of great hunting opportunities out there. It’s important to remember that pheasant and quail populations are influenced by a lot of complicated factors: habitat, drought, blizzards and more. Colorado’s pheasant and quail populations are still recovering from the blizzard of 2022-23 and several years of drought, but there’s much to look for