Scaled quail don’t have the showy bobbing plume of the Gambel’s quail, but these rather plain-looking birds certainly have their charms. Found in much of New Mexico, (up to about 7,000 feet), these ...

Our scaled quail translocation project in Knox County is in full swing. From Feb. 29-March 15 we trapped 388 scaled quail from seven different ranches across the Rolling Plains and Edwards Plateau.

AUSTIN Texas quail hunting season opens Oct. 28, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) surveys indicate an increased number of bobwhite and scaled quail in the field thanks to a combination ...

While hunting prospects for bobwhites are somewhat bleak this season across much of Texas, opportunity abounds for scaled quail under the wide-open skies of the state’s Trans-Pecos region. And that ...

AUSTIN Quail hunting season kicks off on Nov. 1 in Texas, and the annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) roadside survey revealed some encouraging population numbers heading into opening ...

A bird common to the desert Southwest is the Gambel’s Quail; particularly in southern Arizona and New Mexico. They are also abundant in western Colorado and look and act very much like the more ...

America’s legion of devout bird hunters spends much of the year training and working gun dogs, so many of them are forever chasing open seasons from the prairies of the Dakotas where sharptails, ...

Texas' Rolling Plains, a mosaic of mostly grasslands peppered with mesquite and other modest trees, in no way resembles the scenic, verdant, rocky hills of Greece. And the Rolling Plains' fist-size, ...

Forty-eight scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) were collected during August 2002 at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area in Brewster County, Texas, and examined for helminths. Eight species of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The diet of scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) in southeastern New Mexico during 1970-73 was studied by crop analysis. Principal foods were ...

If there’s anything more genuinely unnerving to a bird hunter than a covey rise of bobwhite quail, I’m not sure what it is. Even when you halfway know to expect it, the little buggers burst from ...

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