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The most important advance in 80-plus years in our understanding of bobwhite quail ecology – or, more to the point, bobwhite quail mortality – has been the discovery that a certain parasitic eyeworm, Oxyspirura petrowi, not only has the potential to devastate quail populations on a landscape scale, but to do so with breathtaking, even frightening, rapidity.

The FDA has approved the use of an anthelmintic drug for parasite control in wild quail populations. The FDA concluded that the drug integrated into a medicated feed is both safe and effective in controlling parasites in wild quail in their natural habitat.

It’s a late September morning and opening day for the northern bobwhite quail is still weeks away, but Ronald Kendall is already on the hunt for the once ubiquitous game bird, known to its aficionados as Gentleman Bob.

My interest in wild bobwhite quail began when I was growing up in South Carolina, being mentored by my grandfather. He was an avid outdoorsman and had particular fondness for quail...

The most important advance in 80-plus years in our understanding of bobwhite quail ecology - or, more to the point, bobwhite quail mortality - has been the discovery that a certain parasitic eyeworm...

No one could explain why the birds disappeared from the Rolling Plains of West Texas. It was the autumn of 2010, and for the past thirty years that Rick Snipes had hunted there, the twenty-four million acres of grasslands boasted...

In the autumn of 2010, the camel's back finally broke. After suffering through years of poorer-than-expected bobwhite quail populations - and hearing the same company-line response from the scientific community that it was all due to...

Research funded by the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation have brought parasites under scrutiny as a potential cause for the troubling decline of bobwhite quail in West Texas.