One of six native quail species found in the United States, the northern bobwhite is the only species found east of the Mississippi. It is named for its two-note whistle, which sounds like a low “Bob” ...

No offense to my friends and family, but some of the best visitors I’ve had in my garden recently have had wings, not arms. This time of year, birds seem to arrive in droves — some to nip off seedpods ...

Where it lives: Steppes and meadows in Asia, notably China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia. It's also found in Africa and parts of Europe. Some populations are migratory. What it eats: Seeds of ...

The Northern Bobwhite Quail is a ground-dwelling bird that lives in grassland areas, and the population has declined in New Jersey due to changes in agricultural practices, loss of farmland, and young ...

The last time you could count on flushing a covey of wild quail on Jack Leffel’s land in Botetourt County was in the 1980s. That’s what Leffel’s friend, Ed McCoy, recollects. Sincethen, the native ...

This freshly hatched Button Quail is so tiny, people are calling him “fluffy popcorn,” and TikTok is completely in love.

It’s dusk in spring, and the seven-year anniversary of my mother’s death from cancer is approaching, a death that marked the end of my biological family. I want to text my friend Margot, who lost her ...

This story, “They Call Him Mr. Bob,” appeared in the January 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. Dempsey Cape and I were feeling for solid footing on a brushy hillside that angled into the swamp woods where ...

Large numbers of Zimbabweans are making a living through selling domesticated quail birds. But some of them have found the business tough due to lack of new markets for live birds, their meat and eggs ...

The last time you could count on flushing a covey of wild quail on Jack Leffel’s land in Botetourt County was in the 1980s. That’s what Leffel’s friend, Ed McCoy, recollects. Sincethen, the native ...