When states want to gauge quail populations, the process can be grueling, time-consuming and expensive. It means spending hours in the field listening for calls. Or leaving a recording device in the ...

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Forty years ago, the distinctive call of the bobwhite quail could be heard throughout Virginia’s grasslands. Today, their calls are fading — silenced by changing farm practices and land development ...

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 ...

For most people, the song of the bobwhite quail is the song of spring, when quail are searching for mates and making plenty of noise. For those of us with a little gray on the head, it likely also is ...