JeffreySorelle

RPQRR’s latest effort in translocating wild-trapped bobwhites to sites further east kicks off tomorrow. Tarleton St. graduate student John Palarski and his trapping crew scoured west and south Texas three…

We’re having some success catching bobwhites for our Erath County translocation project! These birds from south Texas are now residents of Erath County. We are putting VHF transmitters on (mostly)…

Several readers commented on the rainfall graphs discussed last month; here are their comments (sometimes abridged for brevity). JO (reporting from eastern panhandle): I recognized your charts and results except…

Last Thursday’s helicopter count was about what I expected . . . sad. Each Mar and Nov we fly the same 52 miles’ worth of transects. We counted only 5…

No one questions the importance of rainfall for bobwhite and scaled quail in west Texas. Studies in south Texas conclude that 94% of the variation in age ratios (a measure…

I hope you have saved some quail heads for our 2018-19 eyeworm surveillance effort. Quail heads can be dropped off at the following locations, or shipped directly to RPQRR. See…

Were you required to memorize poetry in junior high school? I was. Paul Revere’s Ride, Charge of the Light Brigade, and Casey at the Bat were some of the ones…

We seek your assistance in providing bobwhites for our research efforts; we’ll take them “dead or alive.”  We need heads (and a wing) from any bobwhites bagged in the Rolling…

Seems like it. I’ve had 5 “blobs” reported to me thus far, and given the reduced quail harvest overall, that seems like a “higher” rate of hybridization than what we…