Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail As we transition from winter to spring, quail hunters are reflecting on this past season and wondering what’s ahead. How loudly (and how often)…
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by Daniel King To date, RPQRR has received 205 head and wing samples for the 2019-2020 hunting season, 152 of which have been examined for eyeworms using two external techniques…
Fire is a Crescent wrench for wildlife managers. Do you have it in your tool box? I know what you’re thinking . . . so why did you wait until…
We trap quail intensively in November and February each year in order to (a) band as many as possible, and (b) increase our number of radio-marked birds as we approach…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail It may still be winter, but summer will be here before we know it, so this month’s episode of our podcast is all about…
We have 12 units (“polygons”) lined up for prescribed burning during February and March. If you’d like to get some exposure to, or additional experience with, using fire as a…
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2020 is the “year of the rat.” As a Student of Quail, you need to study the relationship between rodent abundance and quail abundance; it…
“One generation plants the tree and another enjoys the shade.” – Anonymous There’s two kinds of donors in the quail world: those who write a check, and those who donate…
The staff at RPQRR put In a lot of hours during November as they trapped the Ranch for 12 days straight. They trapped a total of 464 birds (including 40…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail It’s felt more like winter than fall recently, so this month’s episode of our Dr. Dale on Quail podcast is an ode to the…
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….
