The numbers tell an impressive story. Beloved US bird known for distinct morning call makes incredible comeback after years ...

Bird eggs sport an amazing variety of sizes, colors, and shapes. Their colors could fill an artist’s palette, from robin's ...

The mortality rate from egg to year-old quail is so high that one wonders why the bobwhite hasn’t become an endangered species. Studies on one Southern plantation showed that only about 1,000 eggs ...

Although quail eggs are tiny, they’re beloved by some and are used as specialty ingredients in some Asian dishes. ... Bobwhite quails. Photography via Shutterstock. COTURNIX. There’s a good reason ...

Synchronization of Hatching in American Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) MARGARET A. VINCE 1 Nature volume 203 , pages 1192–1193 ( 1964 ) Cite this article ...

UNION PIER — The population of Bobwhite Quail in the woods, ... About 200 of the 300 eggs used for that first hatching came from the resident quail. A second group of hatchlings (about 80) are ...

He said ticks are a favorite snack of the bobwhite quail! The Town of North Hempstead has a unique way ... This year, we had over 40 people helping to incubate quail eggs. That's tremendous!

These birds are part of the bobwhite quail release program at the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery in Brookhaven. Beginning in April, more than 1,700 eggs were incubated by 41 schools, ...

These birds are part of the bobwhite quail release program at the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery in Brookhaven. Beginning in April, more than 1,700 eggs were incubated by 41 ...

Bobwhite quail eggs are pointed. Since there are so many eggs in a clutch, the pointed shape helps to fit more eggs in the nest like a jigsaw puzzle.

This all comes to mind by way of Richard Mason's column in Perspectives section of the Sunday Arkansas Democrat-Gazette about the deleterious relationship between fire ants and bobwhite quail.

They're back: Historic release of wild northern bobwhite quail happens at Letterkenny Army Depot Wild quail were once found in all 67 counties of Pennsylvania in the mid-1800s. However they have ...