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 ...

A scaled quail, radio transmitter fastened to its neck, is shown minutes before its release. BLANDING — Forty quail in southeastern Utah recently welcomed 200 new friends. On Oct. 3 and Oct. 8, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sometimes Mother Nature can be cruel to the southwest corner of Kansas. It was the heart of the disastrous Dust Bowl, and since had at least two droughts possibly drier than those “Dirty Thirties.” A ...

Texas' quail hunting season opens Saturday - a change from recent years, when the opener typically fell in late October. A change approved by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission earlier this year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I can remember a time when quail were much more plentiful in Oklahoma than whitetail deer. As a youngster, I recall tagging along ...