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 ...

Forty years ago, the distinctive call of the bobwhite quail could be heard throughout Virginia’s grasslands. Today, their calls are fading — silenced by changing farm practices and land development ...

The Northern Bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) occupies a unique ecological niche and is of considerable interest in wildlife management, particularly because of its declining populations across ...

“Quail Forever recognizes the need to help landowners build farming systems that match profitability with ecological performance; supporting the bottom line of farmers and ranchers while contributing ...

The softball-sized bobwhite quail population has quadrupled in Maryland's Nanticoke River Wildlife Management Area over the past four years, reported Maryland's Department of Natural Resources. The ...

In the five years that Alex Busato has been keeping his eyes peeled for local birds, he’s seen perhaps two bobwhite quails. State game commission officials are hoping to change that. Once found in all ...

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 ...

A member of the pheasant family, its biological taxonomy is Colinus virginianus. Readers of The Joplin Globe know it better by the name quail or northern bobwhite quail. The latter name denotes the ...

CHAMPAIGN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has unveiled a new plan to accelerate voluntary conservation efforts for the northern bobwhite quail and the grassland and savanna landscapes that the ...

In 1837, Charles Fenton Mercer Noland, Arkansas’ first outdoor writer, penned a line condensing his thoughts on the scrumptious nature of bobwhite quail. “If I ever starve to death,” he wrote, “I hope ...