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 impenetrable ...

According to a recent press release by the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), the mountain quail, a colorful and elusive game bird that is found in isolated locations throughout Nevada, is ...

“On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me …” Stop the music. The closest thing to a partridge in a pear tree around here is a quail. It will just have to do as our December bird, and it’s ...

I'm walking up the steep slope of Benog Mountain, in the Garhwal Hills of northern India, in search of one the rarest birds in the world. The Himalayan mountain quail, called Pahari bater in Garhwali, ...

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 ...

Mountain quail, Oreortyx pictus (sometimes known as Callipepla pictus, although this is incorrect; protonym, Ortyx picta), also known as the plumed (mountain) partridge, painted quail, plumed ...

Explore Oregon's geologic wonder, the High Lava Plains, We'll show you why dragonflies are one of the most colorful and diverse species in Oregon. Witness another environmental success story when ...