Forty years ago, the distinctive call of the bobwhite quail could be heard throughout Virginia’s grasslands. Today, their calls are fading — silenced by changing farm practices and land development ...

When states want to gauge quail populations, the process can be grueling, time-consuming and expensive. It means spending hours in the field listening for calls. Or leaving a recording device in the ...

Texas quail hunters of a certain age hold all quail hunting seasons against a standard set by a handful in their past - years when the quail population boomed, it seemed every other clump of broom ...

Dog handler Justin Muñoz removes a setter named Sue from her kennel. It was Sue's turn to shine in the quail patch. Blaze takes a drink after a workout in the field. Later he stretched out beneath the ...