Why we don't have any quail, and aren't likely to!

[oldandnew]

I just read an article in Covey Rise, magazine, by the way I highly recommend it as a source reporting on quail hunting and quail habitat research, which reports that for a sustainable quail population, you need somewhere between 2500@ and 5000@, and a population of at least 800 birds. In most parts of the quail range, this requires the cooperation of several different landowners to achieve the dynamic, and there in lies the rub.

 

[OKIEGunner]

O&N,

Found this site a few weeks back found it very interesting. Although it is from 1997 and from Virginia, It supports many of the problems today.

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/quail/quaillegacy.asp

R/s
Gunner

 

[oldandnew]

The big issues have been widely heralded. But what makes this interesting is the idea that even if you have a highly managed for quail, acreage of say 800@, you cannot sustain quail without the surrounding properties managing as you do,to some degree at least. Adding another layer of difficulty to the recovery management. You can sustain a 40@ duck marsh with success, with quail we are forced tomanage on a large scale.

 

[jaytee]

All the more reason why we need to get as many of these utility right of ways converted to quality upland habitat to provide as much connectivity as possible.