To the Editor: Concerning the article "Hunt for scarce bobwhites may be off" on Dec. 26: What is missing from this article on a possible hunting ban of the bobwhite quail due to population declines is ...

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” ...

Progress is being made, and a recent change in policy offers hope for more. But this is going to take more time that perhaps thought. Wildlife managers kicked off an effort to restore bobwhite quail ...

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, ...

MEDFORD – 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 ...

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 ...

Would it matter to you if there were no more wild chickadees? Just caged chickadees in zoos, no wild ones? A friend asked a similar question about bobwhite quail. The discussion concerned whether ...

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 ...