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…
JeffreySorelleAugust 2, 2019
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…
rpqrfJune 4, 2019
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
11th annual field day is Friday, May 24 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the ranch located 11 miles W of Roby on US 180. A news release on…
JeffreySorelleMay 14, 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
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…
rpqrfOctober 15, 2018
“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…
rpqrfAugust 20, 2018
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…
rpqrfJuly 23, 2018
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…
rpqrfMarch 1, 2018
