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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.

When there's good news and bad news, a lot of people prefer to hear the bad news first. Like the finale of a suspenseful television drama, the 2010-2011 Texas upland game season is set to end Feb. 27 with a West Texas cliffhanger.

Veteran quail hunters used to be great examples of optimism. They've long know that robust populations of quail follow boom-and-bust cycles that depend on habitat. Wet years, like 2010, have coincided with a rebound in populations.

Here's a medical term best appreciated by anyone who's been sick lately and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. The term is "idiopathic" and it means a disease for which no cause is known.

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...