Posted By: UTMallard
Quail and Flooding - 11/30/15 06:54 PM
My cousin has a large lease outside of Carrizo Springs in South Texas that has a ton of quail on it. It is primarily a deer lease and they might quail hunt a couple times a year. The one time they hunted this year, he said they moved 25 coveys in a morning and there were more quail than he has ever seen down there.
He said that it flooded down there recently and since then, he has not seen near the number of birds that he had been seeing and thought that the flooding had killed a bunch of the quail. Long question short, will flooding kill birds? It seems like they would be smart enough to get into a tree, but he seems to think that a lot of them drown. He said that he is seeing 1/4 as many birds when he drives the roads and corns for deer. Thoughts?
He said that it flooded down there recently and since then, he has not seen near the number of birds that he had been seeing and thought that the flooding had killed a bunch of the quail. Long question short, will flooding kill birds? It seems like they would be smart enough to get into a tree, but he seems to think that a lot of them drown. He said that he is seeing 1/4 as many birds when he drives the roads and corns for deer. Thoughts?