Dale,

You are very wrong regarding your opinion of the french field trials. You should try to go and see what these dogs do.

BTW, I question your comment about the wild birds. I've spoken with some people in American field and at least according to them, wild birds are rarely, if even then, used due to state wildlife regulations. What is often used are birds that are released a couple weeks prior to the test. These are far from wild birds and behave completely differently.