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About 90 northern bobwhite quail have been released at Letterkenny Army Depot and experts talk about the challenges to establish a wild population.
The translocation efforts to create a wild northern bobwhite quail population in central Pennsylvania are off to a strong start as it appears there may be more birds now than in the spring.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with a handful of partnering organizations, will release about 100 wild quail starting March 19 on Letterkenny Army Depot in Franklin County.
The northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also known as the Virginia quail or (in its home range) bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, with introduced populations elsewhere in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. It is a member of the group of species known as New World quail ...
The spot-bellied bobwhite (Colinus leucopogon) is a ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the crested bobwhite , Colinus cristatus . As the latter species expands north into Costa Rica , it is likely that the two species will overlap in range in the future, but the Costa Rican ...
Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.
Bobwhite quail benefited from early-season rainfall last year, which set the stage for the grass and "weed" growth that is so critical to good production. These factors led to population increases ...
Bobwhite quail populations had recently been in decline and a study was launched to investigate the causes, and what could be done to reverse the trend. This investigation, known as the Cooperative Quail Investigation, was funded by wealthy landowners in the region that began to suspect a downward trend in bobwhite quail numbers.