Posted By: jeh7mmmag
Where have the quail gone? List - 03/22/13 06:48 PM
Anybody got some adds to the list?
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Biologists, hunters, landowners and naturalist have been asking the same question for the past several years, where have the quail gone? Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists along with Dr. Dale Rollins, professor of Wildlife Management at Texas A & M University are both leaders in the quest to determine why Texas quail are on a decline. But, they have yet to say the mystery is solved.
The search goes go, as no one has a definitive answer. Noted Texas outdoors writer, Ray Sasser of the Dallas Morning News, has heard and written about everyone’s quail theories during his 38 years of chronicling outdoors activates, and he believes the situation can be narrowed to his Top Ten list of factors connected to quail populations. Sasser has his list sorted from bottom to top:
10) Fire Ants
“Fire ants have invaded Texas and are causing harm to new born animals and birds. They destroy ground bird nests and generally serve no good purpose.”
9) Over Hunting
more
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/mar/21/outdoors-hunting-where-have-quail-gone/
The search goes go, as no one has a definitive answer. Noted Texas outdoors writer, Ray Sasser of the Dallas Morning News, has heard and written about everyone’s quail theories during his 38 years of chronicling outdoors activates, and he believes the situation can be narrowed to his Top Ten list of factors connected to quail populations. Sasser has his list sorted from bottom to top:
10) Fire Ants
“Fire ants have invaded Texas and are causing harm to new born animals and birds. They destroy ground bird nests and generally serve no good purpose.”
9) Over Hunting
more
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/mar/21/outdoors-hunting-where-have-quail-gone/