The most important advance in 80-plus years in our understanding of bobwhite quail ecology—or, more to the point, bobwhite quail mortality—has been the discovery that a certain parasitic eyeworm, Oxyspirura petrowi, not…
rpqrfMarch 1, 2018
With less than a month of quail season remaining, you have a homework assignment. We are soliciting quail heads/specimens to screen them for eyeworms and cecal worms. If you’ve been…
rpqrfFebruary 12, 2018
After a record 2016 quail season in the Rolling Plains of West Texas, bird hunters want to know what's in store for 2017. Bradley Kubecka thinks it will be about…
rpqrfJuly 11, 2017
In terms of eyeworm infection in wild Northern bobwhite quail, we generally find the worms located in the lacrimal duct and associated ducts in the rear of the eye. Therefore,…
rpqrfJune 15, 2017
Quail hunters threw a party Thursday at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. It was a fitting venue at which to celebrate what is arguably the greatest of game birds in…
rpqrfMarch 11, 2017
No one could explain why the birds disappeared from the Rolling Plains of West Texas. It was the autumn of 2010, and for the past thirty years that Rick Snipes had…
rpqrfOctober 11, 2015
In the summer of 2010, the Rolling Plains of West Texas expected a bumper crop of quail. By October, they nearly had vanished. Now, as part of the largest quail…
rpqrfSeptember 1, 2014
