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 ...

A researcher at the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation is about to affix a radio transmitter to a hen bobwhite quail to study bird movements and habitat use. About a quarter century ago I shared ...

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 ...

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 Rolling Plains is a premier hunting destination and stronghold for bobwhite quail in Texas, second only to South Texas. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s annual roadside survey indicates a ...

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 ...

Bill White and his sons Tony (left) and Andrew at a quail-restoration site in northwest Missouri. Photographs by Michael Sugrue Bill White makes me question everything I’ve heard about wild bobwhite ...

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 ...

Hunters look forward to Nebraska’s upland bird forecast most years. This would not be one of those years. This is the year you cover your eyes, take a deep breath, part your fingers and peek. Then ...