BOBWHITE QUAIL was the subject of a Barnstead Parade reader who wrote on Aug. 1, in part: “Last evening my husband and I were enjoying some quiet time on our porch when we heard a clear bird call that ...

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 was a sound that quickly evoked fond memories of my boyhood in coastal South Carolina — the call of a bobwhite quail. We heard it many times last weekend during a morning bird walk in the Harris ...

After vanishing from Pennsylvania several decades ago, the unique sounds and sights of wild northern bobwhite quail will soon return to the landscape. The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with a ...

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 ...

Bobwhite quail were once among the premier game birds in Virginia. But the small bird with the distinctive song note has fallen on hard times, with populations dropping an estimated 75 percent in the ...

Before dawn one day last month, I drove along a farm road in Waller County to see the rare lineup of six planets. I also saw another uncommon sight as the sun came up — a bobwhite quail calling from a ...

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 ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – On March 19, 2024, employees from Letterkenny Army Depot’s Environmental Management Division, alongside the Pennsylvania Game Commission, released 50 northern bobwhite quail in an ...