RPQRF was humbled to be featured in Forbes last month by renowned writer and TV producer, Chris Dorsey. Through Dorsey’s colorful and first-rate writing talent, he described the quail hunting…
JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2022
RPQRF announces two new services in the Rolling Plains: management consultations and distance-based helicopter surveys. “We seek to reach out to our partners (old and new) and provide them with…
JeffreySorelleJanuary 1, 2022
by Daniel King This month we are talking about what may be the most versatile and valuable tool in a quail manager’s toolbox: prescribed fire. Bobwhite quail across their geographic…
JeffreySorelleJanuary 1, 2022
The RPQRF team uses state-of-the-art technology and methods to estimate abundance of quails from trapping. In short, quails are captured and leg-banded during a time period in which we assume…
JeffreySorelleJanuary 1, 2022
Today is Giving Tuesday, a day we hope you will consider making a special gift to the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation (RPQRF). As a non-profit, RPQRF is dependent on…
JeffreySorelleNovember 30, 2021
by Becky Ruzicka Schnupp et al. 2013 Determining how many animals exist on a landscape at any one time is the ultimate pursuit of wildlife science, the Holy Grail, if…
JeffreySorelleNovember 30, 2021
by Daniel King and Brad Kubecka There are multiple miscommunications that arise when discussing harvest management. Some of these frankly originate in semantics of a “quail population.” Defining our population…
JeffreySorelleNovember 30, 2021
Podcasts - Dr. Dale on Quail This month’s guest is Mr. Rob Hailey from Abilene. The Hailey Ranch, located about 10 miles north of Abilene is a one-man show, and…
JeffreySorelleNovember 19, 2021
by Becky Ruzicka Predators use both visual and olfactory (i.e., sense of smell) senses to locate prey, although most predators tend to rely on one sense more heavily. Birds of…
JeffreySorelleNovember 1, 2021
