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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Anyone who has spent time beating the brush in search of quail and chukar partridge this fall has seen firsthand the effects of long-term drought on the birds’ populations. The hunting season has been ...