So, is the bobwhite bust a function of hot and dry weather, eyeworms, or something else? One would be hard-pressed to point a finger at habitat per se this year.…
by Daniel King RPQRR conducts fall covey call counts every year in October. We conduct these call counts at twelve predetermined points on the ranch. We arrive at the day’s…
DALLAS- Park Cities Quail Coalition pledged a record-setting $1,042,000 to support the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch on Sept. 12 at their annual Dallas check presentation dinner. The funds will…
By Matt Williams|Special contributor 7:49 PM on Mar 2, 2019 A half-dozen hunting seasons have passed since wildlife researchers sniffed out a solid connection between parasites and the mysterious vanishing…
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…
The Region 7 American Shooting Dog Championship was held recently on the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch—it was a hotly contested affair. When the smoke cleared two big running pointers…
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 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…
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…