Loss of natural habitat is a serious threat to wildlife. How game birds have managed to recover after the wildfires that have roared through and incinerated our neck of the woods is a mystery, but ...

Scaled quail don’t have the showy bobbing plume of the Gambel’s quail, but these rather plain-looking birds certainly have their charms. Found in much of New Mexico, (up to about 7,000 feet), these ...

If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, how much would thousands of quails be worth? The McDaniel’s Quail Farm raises more than 25,000 bobwhite quails each year. “I am a bird hunter and it ...

What is the outlook for quail? We asked the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation. Recent surveys revealed how the quail population is doing and the possible outlook for hunters. Quail populations ...

Although a common quail of the desert Southwest, the Gambel’s requires a lot of water. Generally sedentary, it moves short distances in the late summer to form coveys, usually comprising several ...

CARBONDALE - Clay Nielsen, assistant professor with the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory and Department of Forestry at SIU Carbondale, will discuss his research projects on turkeys, quail and ...

Several seasons ago, I talked to Thomas Dailey, a research biologist for the Missouri Conservation Department. He said, “it couldn’t be much worse for the quail in southwest areas of the state. Back ...