Find out what a male, female and juvenile northern bobwhite looks like, what they sound like, and where you may find these ...
I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...
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 ...
Bobwhite quail, after impact from a traumatic event, will call each other together into a tight grouping called a covey to regroup and fend off additional danger as a group. It was a phenomenon that ...
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, ...
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 ...
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” ...
It’s a late September morning and opening day for the northern bobwhite quail is still weeks away, but Ronald Kendall is already on the hunt for the once ubiquitous game bird, known to its aficionados ...
If you haven’t heard the familiar bobwhite quail call recently, there’s good reason. The population — in Ohio and across the parts of the U.S. where they’re native — has plummeted. It’s down 71% in ...
I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...