Newsletters

Volume 13 (2021)

• No. 1 – Adios 2020, and Good Riddance!
• No. 2 – Did recent snow events hurt my quail?
• No. 3 – A St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
  
• No. 4 – Is there a place for predator control in quail management?
  
• No. 5 – Is Anybody Home?
  
• No. 6 – A Changing of the Guard
  
• No. 7 – Are we asking too much of habitat?
  
• No. 8 – Dr. Dale on Quail: The Texas Two-Step
• No. 9 – 2021 Quail Forecast
• No. 10 – Strong Finish to 2021 Nesting Season
• No. 11 – Dr. Dale on Quail: Did Winter Storm Uri Set-back the Biological Clock?
• No. 12 – Giving Tuesday: Support Quail Research!

Volume 12 (2020)

• No. 1 – Management Tip: 5 dimensions in brush sculpting
• No. 2 – With apologies to Merle
• No. 3 – Operation Idiopathic Decline cloned in Pennsylvania
• No. 4 – And they’re off!
• No. 5 – Now hear this!
• No. 6 – Nesting activity off to a good start!
• No. 7 – Got broods?
• No. 8 – “Dean of Texas Quail Hunters” ends his reign
• No. 9 – 2020 Quail Forecast
  
• No. 10 – September rains and cooler weather: will they help quail?
  
• No. 11 – Reflecting on 12 Quail Seasons of Research at RPQRR
  
• No. 12 – Giving Tuesday: We Need Your Help

Volume 11 (2019)

• No. 1 – I hereby resolve
• No. 2 – No Joy in Mudville
• No. 3 – A.S. Jackson’s observations from the 1940s: déjà vu?
• No. 4 – The $64 question
• No. 5 – What are YOU hearing?
• No. 6 – RPQRR Field Day flushed with success
• No. 7 – July’s optimism
• No. 8 – Rick Snipes’s Letter to the Editor
• No. 9 – 2019 Quail Forecast
• No. 10 – Park Cities Quail Coalition & RPQRF: Flushed with Success!
• No. 11 – Quail Season Already?
  
• No. 12 – Eating crow not quail

Volume 10 (2018)

• No. 1 – Eyeworm updates
• No. 2 – RPQRR offers free screening for eyeworms / cecal worms
• No. 3 – Spotlight on Predation
• No. 4 – Field Day set for May 4: Focus on Habitat Management
  
• No. 5 – Quail License Plate now Available!
• No. 6 – RPQRF Releases Statement on Parasites
• No. 7 – “Quail-maker” rain blesses South TX;
  west Tx still dry
• No. 8 – Holes in the Pattern
• No. 9 – 2018 Quail Forecast
• No. 10 – Eyeworm Surveillance Update
• No. 11 – RPQRF’s New Website Takes Flight
• No. 12 – How the Grinch stole Quail Season

Volume 9 (2017)

• No. 1 – The Tale of the Tape?
• No. 2 – Quails Gone Wilde
• No. 3 – Stoking the Fire
• No. 4 – A crescendo of covey rises
• No. 5 -Who’s got the blues?
• No. 6 – Parity in rainfall?
• No. 7 – Making my rounds
• No. 8 – Disappointingly average
• No. 9 – Quail Forecast 2017-18
• No. 10 – Quail Forecast: after further review
  
• No. 11 – Opening weekend brings mixed bag
• No. 12 – Early hunting reports suggest “holes in the pattern”

Volume 8 (2016)

• No. 1 – Storm Goliath: how did it affect our quail?
• No. 2 – Why are quail important to Albany, Texas?
  
• No. 3 – Reflections on a Jubilee Year
  
• No. 4 – Wildly successful . . .
  
• No. 5 -Scaled Quail Restoration to Historic Ranges in the Rolling Plains: Project Update
  
• No. 6 – The Life of a Nesting Bobwhite.
  
• No. 7 – Are we poised for a “boom-boom” in 2016?
  
• No. 8 – Will this year be an encore of 2015-16 quail season?
  
• No. 9 – Quail forecast 2016 . . . “upon further review”
• No. 10 – The Quail Boom: Rain, Management, or Both?
• No. 11 – Safety Rules for Quail Hunters
• No. 12 – Records falling at RPQRR

Volume 7 (2015)

• No. 1 – News Flash – How did New Year’s Ice Storm Impact Quail?
• No. 2 – How accurate was your quail forecast?
• No. 3 – Bob Dylan and Bobwhite
  
• No. 4 – Thanatology
• No. 5 – Addressing the Issue of Eyeworms in Quail
• No. 6 – Almost giddy
• No. 7 – Ah rats!
• No. 8 – A Jubilee year indeed
• No. 9 – Quail forecast 2015
• No. 10 – Bo Derek & Bobwhites
• No. 11 – Where DID they come from?
• No. 12 – My Quail Quest

Volume 6 (2014)

• No. 1 – Dr. Peter J. Hudson to highlight quail disease symposium
• No. 2 – Is the worm turning?
• No. 3 – Living on the Edge
• No. 4 – A vicious cycle
  
• No. 5 – Wherefore art thou El Niño?
• No. 6 – The Rainman Cometh
• No. 7 – A Quail of a June
• No. 8 – Philopatry
• No. 9 – Quail forecast 2014 . . . . they’re baaaaack!
• No. 10 – A Sand Country Almanac
• No. 11 – Quail poop-ed
• No. 12 – Is harvest management an issue?

Volume 5 (2013)

• No. 1 – The end of an era
• No. 2 – Patternology
• No. 3 – The Roots of My Raising
• No. 4 – Operation Transfusion: We have lift-off!
  
• No. 5 – 1994
• No. 6 – The Old Man and the Quail
• No. 7 – The Sound of Music
• No. 8 – Idiopathic Quail Recovery??
• No. 9 – 2013 Quail Hunting Forecasts
• No. 10 – Students of Quail
• No. 11 – Got quail?
• No. 12 – Cold nights in the covey

Volume 4 (2012)

• No. 1 – Feral Hogs and Quail
• No. 2 – Turkeys vs. Bobwhites
• No. 3 – Not by grass alone
• No. 4 – Operation “Pulse”— Checking the health of your quail population
• No. 5 – Dances with Bird Dogs
• No. 6 – A Tip o’ the (Camouflaged Cowboy) Hat
• No. 7 – Natural mortality— through a quail’s eyes
• No. 8 – Diēs caniculārēs – the Dog Days of Summer
• No. 9 – 2012 Quail Forecast
• No. 10 – Will the circle be unbroken?
• No. 11 – Desert Termites: Adding Insult to Injury for Quail Habitat
• No. 12 – Free Bird: A Reprise

Volume 3 (2011)

• No. 1 – Hawks and Quail: A Conundrum for Managers
• No. 2 – RPQRR pledges $2M to investigate quail decline
• No. 3 – Dead Skunks
• No. 4 – Hippocratic management
• No. 5 – Operation Idiopathic Decline commits $2M to research projects
• No. 6 – A Quail Named Sue
• No. 7 – Just Add Water
• No. 8 – And the heat goes on . . .
• No. 9 – Black Swans and Bobwhites
• No. 10 – Quail Hunting Forecasts: Lonesome Quail
• No. 11 – Shoot the Covey Rise!
• No. 12 – A Message to Forlorn Quail Hunters — Man Up!

Volume 2 (2010)

• No. 1 – Cacti and Quail: A Prickly Paradigm
• No. 2 – GPS Predators: Do Coyotes and Cactus Keep Raccoons At Bay?
• No. 3 – Aflatoxins and Quail
• No. 4 – Roadies at RPQRR
• No. 5 – A mother’s love
• No. 6 – Quail Decline: the Search for a Smoking Gun
• No. 7 – A Bird Nest on the Ground
• No. 8 – Bug me . . . please!
• No. 9 – Radio-handicapping: dodging predators with a wing tied behind your back
• No. 10 – 2010 Quail Hunting Forecast
• No. 11 – My Health is Better in November
• No. 12 – Houston, we have a problem.

Volume 1 (2009)

• No. 1 – Welcome to e-Quail
• No. 2 – Does Disease Play a Role in Quail Decline?