America’s legion of devout bird hunters spends much of the year training and working gun dogs, so many of them are forever chasing open seasons from the prairies of the Dakotas where sharptails, ...

Few things can cause a sportsman’s heart rate to spike like the whir of wing beats from a flushing quail or chukar partridge, especially when the bird erupts from a small piece of cover within mere ...

The High Desert Chapter of Quail Forever members have been busy. As of this week, its volunteer members have added over 5,000 gallons of water to 18 different small game guzzlers, or water catchments, ...

I’ve always thought of birds as being lucky with their almost otherworldly aerial abilities. However, not all of the feathered kind are obsessed with flight, including one iconic species of our ...

When the first families of baby quail appear, it is the beginning of the most active period here in the desert for these beautiful birds. It's heart-warming to watch mom and dad and the newly hatched ...

My friend Vic was taking me duck hunting in a jeep that jounced and bumped through weird desert coun­try south of Sasabe in Sonora, Mexico. It was hard for me to imagine why a duck or any other ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I measured the thermal environments experienced by Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) during the summertime in the Colorado Desert by using ...

The Arizona border is home to three species of quail: Mearns, Gambels and Scaled. Submitted photo I’ve been flirting with upland bird hunting most of my life. As a teenager, I had a weimaraner named ...

Although a common quail of the desert Southwest, the Gambel’s requires a lot of water. Generally sedentary, it moves short distances in the late summer to form coveys, usually comprising several ...