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As the end of the Texas quail season came to a close, my thoughts began to shift from bird dogs to our place in the history of quail hunting. Quail…
Summarized by Dale Rollins Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation Quail hunters north of Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle enjoyed a good quail season this year. Most of that region…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail This month’s guest is Dr. Abe Woodard with the East Foundation. Our topic is a “Quail 303” discussion of “sustained yield” of bobwhites in…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail This month’s guest is Tyler Sladen of Albuquerque, NM. Tyler is a serious falconer who specializes in hunting quail with his Tiercel goshawk “Jimmy…
We hope your New Year’s Resolution includes doing more to help wild quail in Texas! One way to help quail is to learn all you can about their biology, the…
Our winter trapping effort at the RPQRR was completed recently. Over two weeks we trapped 710 individual birds, including our first ever “blob” (bobwhite x blue hybrid). Sixteen of the…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail One of the patterns I’ve noticed over the years is that ranchers with bird dogs are more often astute quail managers. No secret really,…
We conducted our Fall helicopter survey at the RPQRR and I am happy to report some good tidings. We saw 7.0 birds per mile, the highest seen since 2017 (albeit…
Podcasts – Dr. Dale on Quail Perhaps you’ve never noticed a key herbivore that may be impacting your quail habitat. They’re desert termites, and odds are, there are millions beneath…
We tip our hats this month to the Cross Timbers Chapter of Quail Coalition in Ft. Worth. Their annual banquet (held last week) grossed over $650,000. Dr. Ryan O’Shaughnessy picked…
Here at the RPQRR, we conduct our fall covey counts throughout the month of October. Last month we recorded an average of 4.0 coveys per location, which is about the…
