A bird hunter may be a wingshooting athlete, a “dog person,” a masochist, a strategist, weekend warrior or gun fancier, but above all that a bird hunter, at some point in their development, is a conservationist who understands the importance of valuing wildlife, putting back more than is taken, the need to manage habitat and passing on traditions. Use this page as a jumping off point for researching organizations you’ll love supporting with your contributions, membership, activism or volunteer time.

Ruffed Grouse Society
RGS & AWS — RGS (ruffedgrousesociety.org)

Established in 1961, the Ruffed Grouse Society is North America’s foremost conservation organization dedicated to preserving our sporting traditions by creating healthy forest habitat for ruffed grouse, American woodcock and other wildlife. RGS works with landowners and government agencies to develop critical habitat utilizing scientific management practices.

Pheasants Forever (Affiliated with Quail Forever)
pheasantsforever.org

In 1982, a group of pheasant hunters saw the connection between upland habitat loss and declining pheasant populations. An organization dedicated to wildlife habitat conservation was needed, and Pheasants Forever was formed. Pheasants Forever’s mission work quickly garnered it a reputation as “The Habitat Organization,” a tagline the nonprofit conservation group uses proudly to this day.

Pheasants Forever is dedicated to the conservation of pheasants, quail and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education and land management policies and programs.

Quail Forever (Affiliated with Pheasants Forever)
quailforever.org

Quail Forever is dedicated to the conservation of quail, pheasants and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education and land management policies and programs.

Ducks Unlimited
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Ducks Unlimited is the world’s leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation.

DU got its start in 1937 during the Dust Bowl when North America’s drought-plagued waterfowl populations had plunged to unprecedented lows. Determined not to sit idly by as the continent’s waterfowl dwindled beyond recovery, a small group of sportsmen joined together to form an organization that became known as Ducks Unlimited. Its mission: habitat conservation.

Delta Waterfowl
Home Delta Waterfowl

Delta Waterfowl Foundation is The Duck Hunters Organization, a leading conservation group working to produce ducks and secure the future of waterfowling in North America.

Sage Grouse Initiative
Working Lands for Wildlife (wlfw.org)

The Sage Grouse Initiative is a new paradigm for conserving at-risk wildlife that works through voluntary cooperation, incentives, and community support.

We are passing on our western heritage of vast skies, unbroken sagebrush-steppe, and room for wildlife and people to roam.

Quail & Upland Wildlife Federation
Quail & Upland Wildlife Federation — Protecting Our Wildlife And Clean Streams (quwf.net)

Formed in 2009, the Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation, Inc™ (QUWF), based in Buffalo, Missouri, a rural community whose agricultural roots and moral compass reflect the core of QUWF, was organized to better focus efforts, donated dollars and partnerships on immediate and positive habitat projects to “Turn-The- Dirt“©™ for upland wildlife.

From the beginning we wanted to guide the thousands of wildlife habitat conservationists we represented to a new direction, one of solid focus of local projects, outreach and involvement. Like never before, people want to be involved in wildlife habitat work on their own lands and in their communities and spend the money they raise.

National Shooting Sports Foundation
NSSF | The Firearm Industry Trade Association

To promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 12,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers.

Find a range near you to hone wingshooting skills and be better at hitting flying targets at the start of this bird season than you were at the end of last season. This National Shooting Sports Foundation web site lets you search by the type of ranges that you like to shoot, including sporting clays, 5-stand, skeet and trap. http://wheretoshoot.org/Find_Range/index.asp

The Sportsmen’s Alliance
Sportsmen’s Alliance (sportsmensalliance.org)

For nearly four decades, the Sportsmen’s Alliance has fought to protect and advance our outdoor heritage of hunting, fishing, trapping and shooting in all 50 state legislatures, in the courts, in Congress and at the ballot box.

Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation
Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation — YOUR INSIDE CONNECTION TO OUTDOOR LEGISLATION

CSF’s mission is to work with Congress, governors, and state legislatures to protect and advance hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping.

To guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt and fish.

We help create federal policy and funding solutions by uniting our partners and amplifying the voices of American sportsmen and women in service of Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy.