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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…

Daniel King is now onsite as RPQRR’s new manager; he fills the position held previously by Lloyd Lacoste who moved to the San Tomas lease on the King Ranch.  Daniel…

As 2018 draws to a close, we are asking for your help.  RPQRF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and we rely on financial support from private donors to make a…

Our quail are ancient in quail-terms; 80% of our fall trapping sample were adults.  Because we have leg-banded birds we can identify a large segment (37%) of “old” birds (>2.5…

Survival was “poor” throughout the year; overall the lowest survival we’ve measured.  Several factors may have been involved, including poor cover, predation, and parasites.  Predator numbers, and their “hunting success”…

Last fall, winter and spring were terribly dry.  No winter greens bode poorly for reproduction.  A dry fall also meant poor germination of broomweed, which may have parlayed into reduced…

“You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch!”  Many quail hunters ask how we could go from “riches” (2016) to “rags” (this season) so quickly.  The 2016 season was a record-setter, and…