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How to identify a northern bobwhite

Stroll through a peaceful prairie and, in the span of a step, you might set off a burst of beating wings as a covey of ...
I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...
Bobwhite quail, after impact from a traumatic event, will call each other together into a tight grouping called a covey to ...
The homestead garden is alive with sweet corn, ripe tomatoes, melons, and not so welcome groundhogs. Fly-catchers go air-to-air after cabbage moths by day, while the little brown bats take out the ...
One of six native quail species found in the United States, the northern bobwhite is the only species found east of the Mississippi. It is named for its two-note whistle, which sounds like a low “Bob” ...
If there’s anything more genuinely unnerving to a bird hunter than a covey rise of bobwhite quail, I’m not sure what it is. Even when you halfway know to expect it, the little buggers burst from ...
It’s a late September morning and opening day for the northern bobwhite quail is still weeks away, but Ronald Kendall is already on the hunt for the once ubiquitous game bird, known to its aficionados ...
If you haven’t heard the familiar bobwhite quail call recently, there’s good reason. The population — in Ohio and across the parts of the U.S. where they’re native — has plummeted. It’s down 71% in ...
As the next step in bringing wild bobwhite quail back to Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Game Commission at its meeting on Saturday will consider establishing a 177.65-square-mile recovery area at ...
I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...