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Park Cities Quail Coalition Pledges more than $1 million for Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch

DALLAS- Park Cities Quail Coalition pledged a record-setting $1,042,000 to support the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch on Sept. 12 at their annual Dallas check presentation dinner. The funds will be used for annual operating expenses, a new headquarters complex, translocation research initiatives and a soon-to-be-announced program to train veterans…

JeffreySorelleSeptember 16, 2019

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Abstracts for Statewide Quail Symposium available online

The 3rd Statewide Quail Symposium was a great success with a capacity crowd. The program booklet, complete with abstracts, is now available online at this link. It can also be accessed from the home page of the Symposium website.

JeffreySorelleSeptember 4, 2019

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RPQRR’s Nesting Summary

by Daniel King The “tale of the tape: radio-marked hens alive May 1 = 44 (32 Bobs, 12 Blues) hens alive August 29 = 27 (21 Bobs, 6 Blues) first nest initiated 5/11/19 first nest hatched 6/3/19 total nests to date (8/29/19)= 34 (29 Bobs, 5 Blues) 20 hatched (17…

JeffreySorelleSeptember 4, 2019

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Medicated feed for treating parasitic infections in Texas’ wild quail awaits approval

By Matt Williams|Special contributor 7:49 PM on Mar 2, 2019 A half-dozen hunting seasons have passed since wildlife researchers sniffed out a solid connection between parasites and the mysterious vanishing act of bobwhite quail that occurred across the rolling plains of West Texas in 2010. The finding has since led…

JeffreySorelleAugust 30, 2019

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Bug Day on Aug. 7

Our annual ‘Bug Day” will be held Wednesday, Aug. 7 at the Ranch. We need 20 volunteers to help sort and identify (to Order only) the arthropods collected during this month’s pitfall and sweep-net sampling. We’ll begin at 9:00 and (hopefully) wind up about 5 p.m. No experience necessary, and…

JeffreySorelleAugust 2, 2019

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Statewide Quail Symposium in Abilene

Make plans now to attend the 3rd Statewide Quail Symposium slated for the Aug. 14-16 in Abilene. A field day on the afternoon of Aug. 14 at the MT7 Ranch near Breckenridge will kick of the symposium. I often hold up the MT7 as “the great bobwhite hope” for the…

JeffreySorelleAugust 2, 2019

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2019 Field Day

Come along on RPQRR’s 11th annual field day, attended by more than 100 “Students of Quail.” The weather was outstanding and we heard a chorus of bobwhites singing in the background as we toured our Research Ranch. We thank our co-sponsors, Park Cities Quail Coalition and Texas A&M Agrilife Extension…

rpqrfJune 4, 2019

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Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch Honored with Lone Star Land Steward Award

ROBY, Tx- The Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch has been honored with a prestigious Lone Star Land Steward Award from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). TPWD’s Lone Star Land Steward Awards program recognizes private landowners for excellence in habitat management and wildlife conservation. The awards also seek to…

JeffreySorelleMay 21, 2019

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RPQRR’s 11th annual field day is Friday, May 24

11th annual field day is Friday, May 24 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the ranch located 11 miles W of Roby on US 180. A news release on the day’s activities is here: https://today.agrilife.org/quail. For agenda, click here. Registration is $10 at the door; folks are asked to…

JeffreySorelleMay 14, 2019

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Hot off the Press: RPQRF’s 2018 Annual Report

We are pleased to release our 2018 Annual Report, available here. Inside you’ll find a comprehensive review of our work over the last year, including our long-term data sets for counting and tracking quail populations. The report also contains our latest information on quail survival, nesting success, and how small mammals, arthropods and raptor…

JeffreySorelleMarch 26, 2019