Quail - unlike the pheasant - is a bird native to Pennsylvania and therefore attempts should be made to keep it from disappearing, reasons the draft Northern Bobwhite Quail Management Plan, which just ...

The Agriculture Department is pooling $13 million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program funding toward Northern Bobwhite habitat projects under a new program. Undersecretary for Farm Production ...

One of six native quail species found in the United States, the northern bobwhite is the only species found east of the Mississippi. It is named for its two-note whistle, which sounds like a low “Bob” ...

Conservation practices need to be installed to help restore pine savanna, a critical wildlife habitat of the Northern Bobwhite Quail. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now ...

An outbreak of blackhead disease (Histomonas meleagridis) in farm-reared flock of 13,500 bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) resulted in mortality totaling approximately 1500 in 4 wk. Necropsy of 56 ...

Coveys of quail were once more common than the hounds and hunters who pursued them through the brushy fields of New Jersey. On summer nights, their calls would pierce the air with a whistling, ...

The homestead garden is alive with sweet corn, ripe tomatoes, melons, and not so welcome groundhogs. Fly-catchers go air-to-air after cabbage moths by day, while the little brown bats take out the ...

Bill Haines Jr. used to see wild quail on his family's farm all the time when he was growing up. He heard their distinctive "bobwhite" calls and thought nothing of it. Fifty years ago, the small ...

For any hunter who has watched a dog coursing through a field, his head high and nose sniffing the air, then come to an abrupt stop, his nose lowered to the ground and his tail high in the air, the ...