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” ...

On an early January morning, Raleigh Lowder let loose his two hunting dogs, 2-year-old English pointer Dottie and 10-year-old German short hair Doc, to scour the grounds of Bobwhite Hills Wild ...

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 ...

Quail hunters in Texas can take a little solace, perhaps even a bit of optimism, afield this season. The state’s bobwhite quail populations seem to be recovering in what could be a “building year” for ...

The dog is crouched low, back straight, one foreleg slightly bent and eyes locked forward. His owner steadies him with quiet words. The handful of hunters, clad in blaze-orange caps and vests and ...

Northern bobwhite quail, the focus of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s latest effort to try to bring back a native wildlife species that, sadly, has disappeared from the state’s landscape, has ...

Progress is being made, and a recent change in policy offers hope for more. But this is going to take more time that perhaps thought. Wildlife managers kicked off an effort to restore bobwhite quail ...

A member of the pheasant family, its biological taxonomy is Colinus virginianus. Readers of The Joplin Globe know it better by the name quail or northern bobwhite quail. The latter name denotes the ...

Eyeworms have been found in 60 percent of bobwhite quail in the Rolling Plains, and cecal worms have been discovered in 90 percent of the birds. A new medicated feed, QuailGuard, shows potential for ...

The bad news first: Bobwhite quail hunting season probably won’t be very good across much of Texas. Especially in the Rolling Plains, a region that has historically been one of the top bobwhite quail ...

Several hundred people gathered last Friday night at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock for the annual induction banquet of the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame. Among the inductees ...