A covey of gambel’s quail scurrying through the desert with their topknots bobbing is a common sight in parts of the southwest. Adapted to live in arid climates, the gambel’s is especially associated ...

I call baby quail "buttons with fast feet." Just about this time each year we see them, many of them racing after one or two moms on the lookout for something good to eat. Baby quail are truly ...

A bird common to the desert Southwest is the Gambel’s Quail; particularly in southern Arizona and New Mexico. They are also abundant in western Colorado and look and act very much like the more ...

It’s a four-times-a-day routine. Up at dawn to put out seed, peanuts in the shell and suet for our flock of 80 pinyon jays. Once the jays have devoured everything in sight, it’s time to put out more ...

When leaving my subdivision recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see a Gambel’s Quail. While this is probably a regular occurrence for a lot of you, it is not for me. I live in a subdivision close ...

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 ...

This story, “Gambling for Gambel’s,” is republished as it appeared in the December 1946 issue, and therefore reflects the language and stereotypes of the times. PERHAPS it’s simply luck. Perhaps it’s ...

Not Brewster again, Bruce, I don’t know what is going on in your town, but between hearing about peacocks, white turkeys, something called a “Tennessee Red Quail” and now this unusual bird, I’m ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department is predicting that this year will be the first decent hunting season for Gambel's quail since El Nino was here in 1997. One of the consequences of the disastrous ...

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 ...

Careful design of a wildlife population monitoring strategy is necessary to obtain accurate and precise results whether the purpose of the survey is development of habitat suitability models, to ...

When the sun comes up Saturday morning, it will mark the beginning of Nevada’s chukar and quail hunting seasons statewide. It also is opening day for waterfowl seasons in the state’s Northwest Zone, ...