This updated article is based on content originally published in the Tall Timbers Bobwhite Quail Management Handbook The history of agriculture has had a profound effect on bobwhite populations over much of their range. As the forests of the east were cleared to make...
Game Birds
Does growing season prescribed fire affect turkey nesting?
Wild turkeys, like a host of other ground-nesting birds in the Southeast, need regular prescribed fire to maintain their habitat. As many land managers start to head into the woods to light off fires that will inevitably help turkeys, bobwhite, and a number of other...
Quail translocation to Western Pineywoods shows early promise
The Western Pineywoods Quail Program (WPQP) launched its first translocation last year in east Texas. Another round of translocated birds were released earlier this month and there are early signs that the project to reintroduce quail to Texas could be successful.
Hunter-covey interaction can shift bobwhite behavior patterns
This study was done as part of a collaborative project with the University of Georgia and appeared in in the Winter 2018 edition of the Tall Timbers eJournal The more bobwhite quail are chased by predators, the more they shift their behavioral response to pressure and...
Shaping management through quail population tracking
Finding out how many quail coveys you have throughout the hunting season can help shape management practices.
Rotating hunt courses reduces pressure on birds
Rotating through hunt courses is a sure way to keep covey rises fresh and hunters happy.
The right crops and field management can influence quality brood habitat
Understanding the extent to which various agricultural crops contribute to arthropod abundance could be important when combined with quail management.
Dwayne Elmore joining Tall Timbers to head Game Bird Program
Tall Timbers is proud to announce that Dwayne Elmore PhD., will be joining our team in September as our new Game Bird Program director. The size and breadth of our Game Bird Program will benefit from the leadership skills Dwayne has honed over the past 17 years at...
Quail translocation providing hope to restore habitat, birds in historic range
Wild bobwhite quail translocation to four states could help to rebound populations that have shrunk over the last century because of habitat loss. This spring, Tall Timbers’ Game Bird Program moved 320 birds from the Red Hills and Albany regions to properties in...
Quail Forever training class combines Tall Timbers expertise and federal fire standards
A group of nine Quail Forever biologists joined Tall Timbers this spring for a class combining training standards used for national wildfire coordination with quail management and fire ecology. The course delivers the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (NWCG)...
The Multiple Benefits of Quail Management
By Jim Cox, originally published in the Summer 2022 edition of Quail Call. It’s not much of a stretch to suggest that the Quail Call and all the other great information that Tall Timbers provides on quail management, has strong links to another bird that is as plump...
Managing Game Bird Program Field Visits with a New App
By Clay Sisson, Albany Quail Project Director and Extension Coordinator and Karen Cummins, Geospatial Database Administrator The Tall Timbers' Game Bird Program needed an efficient way to track field visits on hunting properties both by program area and regionally to...






















