It is early morning on a summer day. A Salmon River rafter is wakened in his tent by a sharp whistle, cle, cle, cle, cle. Soon more, softer whistles are heard all around, in and under the bushes. The ...

Ithaca, NY--Mountain Quail are an under-studied but recreationally-valued management indicator species in California's Sierra Nevada. They are notoriously difficult to study due to their penchant for ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho State University graduate student is trying to re-establish a native mountain quail population in the Bennett Mountains about 70 miles southeast of Boise. Ron Troy ...

Game bird populations can swing wildly. Sometimes a wet spring and its resulting benefit to plant and insect communities can produce a boom. Sometimes the same wet conditions with a slightly different ...