Our annual ‘Bug Day” will be held Wednesday, Aug. 7 at the Ranch. We need 20 volunteers to help sort and identify (to Order only) the arthropods collected during this…
Make plans now to attend the 3rd Statewide Quail Symposium slated for the Aug. 14-16 in Abilene. A field day on the afternoon of Aug. 14 at the MT7 Ranch…
Come along on RPQRR’s 11th annual field day, attended by more than 100 “Students of Quail.” The weather was outstanding and we heard a chorus of bobwhites singing in the…
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…
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…
Coupled with increased awareness of the parasite work being done by the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation, a dismal 2017-'18 quail season in West Texas and Oklahoma left many hunters pointing…
“We’ll start a fire on both sides of this field, and it will eventually burn together,” says Dale Rollins as we ride his side-by-side utility vehicle along the ranch’s interior…
Two years after quail populations in Texas’ premier quail regions hit peaks not seen in a generation, abundance of the iconic, ground-nesting game birds in some of those areas has…
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…