I used to do a lot of bird hunting IRL. But since Ptarmigans were put into the game, especially WT Ptarmigans were put on TgT, we all should just have sticks of dynamite to throw at them when they are in a covey together...................
Maybe then the Bighorn Sheep would all run to one side of the map and we could have mass slaughter of them also................
Now being a little more serious about this subject I wouldn't mind seeing more upland birds in the game, if only they could make dogs work correctly like a real hunting dog does.
The reason that Capercaille's supposedly weren't put into the game is, as they like to roost a lot in tree's and the Dev's said they just couldn't figure out how to make them
interact up in the tree's so until they could do it right they wouldn't make them, something like that reason also they haven't made squirrels. IMO the upland birds do not have to interact
with trees and they could be flushed just like any other upland bird on the ground, that would only be a minor obsolete detail of this bird which may be figured out how to make them roost in a tree at a latter date.
The fix of upland birds, particularly Ptarmigans is to make them work correctly and getting rid of that ridiculous flying in circles where they are flushed then coming right back to that spot.
IMO, Make them more with Pheasant like behavior when flushing them and make Ptarmigans, Quail, Grey Partridge, join back up together in their covey at a different spot farther away like they do IRL. Grouse could be the same way, but some grouse like Ruffed Grouse doesn't have big coveys but could still work the same way even with 2-3 birds coming back to the group.
So yes to different upland birds, & waterfowl. It's usually a bird that you first hear when you walk outdoors in the country because there are so many of them around.
And when I am on stand deer hunting on a frosty morning it is usually a Chickadee's Jeet Jeet Jeet sound when it is searching the branches for it's first meal with the suns appearance,...
so the immersion of this in the game would really be outstanding if they added it just for realistic purposes, and adding more upland birds would be also great if they made them act
like they're closely supposed to when you kick them up.