This is what inside the grow out houses for our Northern Bobwhite Quail look like. We are starting to fill them up! Not quite halfway but we are making progress! #quail #farming #poultry #fypageシ #reelsfacebook #eggs | Quail Lady Brittany Freedom Flyers

Northern bobwhites hold a special place in Georgia’s outdoor culture and wildlife heritage. In fact, the Georgia General Assembly designated the bobwhite quail as the State Gamebird in 1970. Back in the quail boom years of the early 20th century, Georgia's landscape was a "sea" of usable habitat for quail due to extensive low intensity farming and forestry with little urban/suburban development. However, Georgia’s quail population has declined by more than 85% since the 1960s and consequently th

Sound on: Bobwhite quail get their unusual name from their distinctive call - listen for a "bob-white!" whistle-like call that goes up in pitch at the end! | Iowa Department of Natural Resources

The bobwhite quail was first deemed the ‘fire bird” by Herbert Stoddard, author of the 1931 classic; The Bobwhite Quail: Its Habits, Preservation, and Increase. The bobwhite earned this nickname due to its positive response to fire. “Prescribed fire” is the purposeful application of fire to achieve a specific vegetation management objective under a prescribed set of environmental circumstances, including season, wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity and smoke dispersal. Prescribed fire