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You can hunt Pigeons in two different areas: in the province of Santiago del Estero at El Picazo lodge, and in Villa Dolores at the Pucará Hotel. The season goes from the end of March to the beginning of October. The usual shooting per hunter per day is around 250 to 300 Pigeons. Pigeon hunting Testimonies
Argentina Pigeon Hunting... The pigeons "Columba Palumbus" are one of the greater and more corpulent of the doves. The round head is of azure gray color and in general the plumage seen from a distance seems completely gray slaty. The neck is in the base of wine-colored red color and on him emphasizes a lot to each side a white spot and closely the shine or green and violet luster. The spine of the wings is parduzco and the feathers sidewalks are gray with white edges, forming a very conspicuous white band through the wings that is noted when they are unfolded and they facilitate the hunt.
Scientific name: Columba palumbus.
Type: Cordados.
Class: Birds Family
Colúmbidos Kind: Columba.
Common name: Pigeons.
Hunting level: Moderate.
The lower parts of the pigeons are red wine-colored in the chest and gray pale in the sides and the womb. The queue is blackish, finishes in wide black stripe and the obispillo gray shale. The peak is rose in the base, yellow toward the extreme and this off-white; the legs and the feet are red choir with a light mauve color that is appreciated well in the pigeons; the iris is yellowish or straw.
Its length is over the 40 cm and its importance sidewalk is of 75 cm. It weighs to 500 g, generally greater weight to 350 is sought g for its hunt.
The plumage of the upper part is of gray color, except for a white splash of color situated to both sides of the very characteristic neck of the pigeons and in each wing, this alone neck appears from 6 or 8 weeks, the chest is of pink color and the queue finishes in a wide band of black color.
The most minimum collision inside the hunt, can withdraw him feathers of the featherbed. But that can be him of a great utility to the pigeons, above all for its enemies the boys that this attacks for lower part in the hunt.
The male one of the pigeons tends to be of greater size and presents a gaudier plumage; the immature have some duller tones. A good hunting criterion and differentiation when the mute one post youthful is finished, is the color of the iris and the base of the peak that is gray azure for the youths, characteristic sought for its hunt.
The older pigeons have an iris lemon yellow pale or yellow sulphurous, the base of the peak returns pink red, purple or red hot, the tip of the yellow peak I live or yellow anaranjado and the legs red purple deep or red dark.
The mute one of the shelter of the pigeons is not never complete. In fact, they will be able to find individuals with series of new feathers separated by old feathers of the previous year that are used for hunting decoys.
Habitat and Hunt
The forests and the field are the most frequented places by the pigeons, so much in plains as in hills where is carried out their hunt. It it is found therefore under the latitude that are of a climate moderate, special for the pigeons. Some clutches are found, but in a marginal way, in the steppes and the Mediterranean zones.
Pigeons’s clutches will be found in the woods of ashes, oak trees and alisos and the young plantations of conifers where are carried out hunting traps. As for the needs of space, the pigeons not to stop marking and to defend a plot of forest that permit them to obtain eating resources for its offspring and which facilitates the hunt of this specie. |
