CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — South Texas is a hot spot for wildlife, and one of the biggest species in the Coastal Bend is birds. This season, the quail population in Texas is the highest its been in five ...

With ample rainfall, healthy cover, and an abundance of quail in the summer of 2010, hunters in the Rolling Plains region of West Texas anticipated another bumper crop of their beloved birds the ...

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) surveys shows quail populations are on the rise, just in time for the beginning of hunting season. The quail hunting season began Oct. 28. The data indicates ...

Quail hunting season kicks off Saturday and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is predicting an uncertain hunt this year due to drought conditions. Texas is home to four quail species: the ...

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned over 1 million acres of the Texas Panhandle, making it the largest wildfire in state history. It’s one of four wildfires currently ...

I have to admit, I am not bullish on the long-term future for bobwhite quail in Texas, and to be honest the rest of North America. Estimates are that quail numbers across the U.S. have dipped 75 ...

The number of bobwhite quail living on the limited and shrinking habitat declined so dramatically and obviously over several years that it couldn't be ignored or explained away as one of those ...

OYNOR — Hindsight is a wonderful thing. You know, coulda, woulda, shoulda. As Mike Martin, Rusty Mitchum and I walked toward Martin’s German shorthair, Millie, I couldn’t help but wonder what the ...

Quail season opened Saturday in Texas. For the shrinking number of Texans to whom quail and quail hunting are hugely important, this is bittersweet. Neither quail nor quail hunting are what they were ...

The 2019 “building mode” for Texas’ bobwhite quail is but a memory. Bird numbers are down in four of the six ecoregions Texas Parks and Wildlife Department examines in its annual roadside survey. That ...

The Texas lawyer Dick Cheney sprayed with birdshot during a traumatic 2006 hunting trip recently bagged his first quail since the terrifying rifle mishap 10 years ago — but there has still never been ...

This year’s results from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s annual roadside quail survey are much to the chagrin of hunters and biologists alike. The 2021 survey looks much like 2020’s statewide ...