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” ...

After vanishing from Pennsylvania several decades ago, the unique sounds and sights of wild northern bobwhite quail will soon return to the landscape. The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with a ...

Progress is being made, and a recent change in policy offers hope for more. But this is going to take more time that perhaps thought. Wildlife managers kicked off an effort to restore bobwhite quail ...

Northern bobwhite quail, the focus of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s latest effort to try to bring back a native wildlife species that, sadly, has disappeared from the state’s landscape, has ...

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 ...

Arkansans are so immersed in deer and duck hunting that we overlook other game, such as bobwhite quail and woodcock. Few hunters pursue upland birds in Arkansas, largely for perceived lack of ...

Bobwhite quail once seemed plentiful in Ohio, which is surprising, because the state doesn't have many areas where quail typically thrive. Quail numbers in Ohio have dwindled, especially since 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 ...

As my hunt for a covey came nearer to its conclusion, I noticed the sky beginning to clear to the west under the overcast blanket of clouds above me. Just then, the sun’s powerful rays peeked below ...