The winter of 2024-25 was drier than normal but followed two wet winters so quail and chukar should have experienced an above ...

(FOX40.COM) –The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced high expectations for the upcoming hunting season with an above-average abundance of quail and chukar.• Video Above: Trail cameras ...

I call baby quail "buttons with fast feet." Just about this time each year we see them, many of them racing after one or two moms on the lookout for something good to eat. Baby quail are truly ...

Not sure why, but for some unexplained reason we’ve seen more Gambel’s Quail this year than usual. On our quarterly Tucson Bird Counts along the Canada del Oro Wash and along Willow Springs Road we’ve ...

It’s a four-times-a-day routine. Up at dawn to put out seed, peanuts in the shell and suet for our flock of 80 pinyon jays. Once the jays have devoured everything in sight, it’s time to put out more ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department is predicting that this year will be the first decent hunting season for Gambel's quail since El Nino was here in 1997. One of the consequences of the disastrous ...

Both of those conditions are in play this year over substantial parts of quail range. Winter rains are critical for Gambel’s and scaled quail, the desert species that count on a green-up in that ...

When it comes to big game hunting, there are few hunters who will argue the importance and the value of preseason scouting, especially when one will be hunting in a new area or is looking for an ...

Careful design of a wildlife population monitoring strategy is necessary to obtain accurate and precise results whether the purpose of the survey is development of habitat suitability models, to ...

Not Brewster again, Bruce, I don’t know what is going on in your town, but between hearing about peacocks, white turkeys, something called a “Tennessee Red Quail” and now this unusual bird, I’m ...

The first one identified and seen is Gambel’s quail, a game bird, vividly marked with stripes, scales and arty paint strokes on a smooth canvas of gray, beige and brown. The head is crowned with a ...

When the sun comes up Saturday morning, it will mark the beginning of Nevada’s chukar and quail hunting seasons statewide. It also is opening day for waterfowl seasons in the state’s Northwest Zone, ...