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The Pennsylvania Game Commission has several reasons to be optimistic about the translocation efforts with northern bobwhite quail. Here's where. Quail researchers optimistic about first year of ...
“Bobwhite are returning to Pennsylvania,” said Andrew Ward, quail, pheasant and dove biologist for the Game Commission. Ward has been managing the quail reintroduction effort for about three ...
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 ...
This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state. This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs . Several species recently lived wild in Pennsylvania, but are now extirpated (locally, but not globally, extinct).
C. v. texanus (Lawrence 1853) (Texas bobwhite) Callipepla Wagler 1832 (Crested quails) †Callipepla shotwelli (Brodkorb 1958) Scaled quail/blue quail Callipepla squamata (Vigors 1830) C. s. pallida Brewster 1881 (northern scaled quail) C. s. hargravei Rea 1973 (Upper Sonoran scaled quail) C. s. castanogastris Brewster 1883 (chestnut-bellied ...
About 90 northern bobwhite quail have been released at Letterkenny Army Depot and experts talk about the challenges to establish a wild population.
The king quail, an Old World quail, often is sold in the pet trade, and within this trade is commonly, though mistakenly, referred to as a "button quail". Many of the common larger species are farm-raised for table food or egg consumption , and are hunted on game farms or in the wild, where they may be released to supplement the wild population ...
Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It inhabits the desert regions of Arizona , California , Colorado , New Mexico , Nevada , Utah , Texas , and Sonora ; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California .