ROBY, Tx- The Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch has been honored with a prestigious Lone Star Land Steward Award from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). TPWD’s Lone Star…
JeffreySorelleMay 21, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleApril 2, 2019
We are pleased to release our 2018 Annual Report, available here. Inside you’ll find a comprehensive review of our work over the last year, including our long-term data sets for counting and…
JeffreySorelleMarch 26, 2019
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)…
JeffreySorelleMarch 5, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleMarch 4, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleMarch 4, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2019
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…
JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2019
