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 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 ...

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 ...

Wild bobwhite quail are all but vanished from Pennsylvania. A new proposal by the Pennsylvania Game Commission would try to restore the native game bird. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) The last time I ...

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” ...

A lonely country road. No traffic, to speak of, all day. Just the shadows of trees. And some early autumn leaves. That was the first image that spoke to me on a recent trip to Virginia. Flat farm ...

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 ...

I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...

I hadn't seen a bobwhite quail along the Texas coast in several years until the other day when a brightly plumed cinnamon-hued male popped up on a clump of grass in front of me at Anahuac National ...