Quail populations on the rebound

Four years ago, Dr. Dale Rollins of the Rolling Plains Quail Institute near San Angelo was saying that quail numbers were at a level where hunting them should be halted.

The word extinction was applied to a very serious quail decline. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and Rollins were looking at several factors which may have caused the rapid drop in bobwhite and blue quail numbers across West Texas and in the Rolling Plains.

Rollins detected eye parasites in some of the birds he tested. TPWD biologists were honed in on habitat and the depletion of nesting areas for the birds. As it turned out, the worst culprit was probably drought conditions and the lack of carry-over hatches from previous years.

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That late hatch perez predicted is most likely gone, no rain and high temperatures stop quail from hatching and nesting

That late hatch perez predicted is most likely gone, no rain and high temperatures stop quail from hatching and nesting