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” ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The bobwhite quail, which officially hasn't been in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade, is coming back home. The Pennsylvania Game Commission released 50 bobwhite quail at ...

ALUM CREEK, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia wildlife officials have embarked on an effort to restore the northern bobwhite quail population. Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday that 12,000 bobwhite quail ...

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 ...

The Agriculture Department is pooling $13 million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program funding toward Northern Bobwhite habitat projects under a new program. Undersecretary for Farm Production ...

If you heard a bobwhite quail calling for a mate this spring, you're lucky, but the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks would like those sounds to be more common and is asking for ...

As the next step in bringing wild bobwhite quail back to Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Game Commission at its meeting on Saturday will consider establishing a 177.65-square-mile recovery area at ...

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 ...

Unfortunately for wildlife biologists, animals don’t reply to questionnaires (though hunters do). In fact, many species are notoriously people-shy, living secretive existences and avoiding contact ...

Austin Peay State University is teaming up with a quail advocacy group to try to bring the bobwhite quail back to Tennessee grasslands. APSU’s Southeastern Grasslands Initiative (SGI) and Quail ...

The first wild bobwhite quail in Pennsylvania since the 1990s may be released onto a protected area of Franklin County as early as 2024. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners at a recent ...