Were any attempts made to educate the bobwhite quail on realistically foraging or to identify and fear predators before being released? To be more realistic on foraging, the fenced enclosure can have a few rows of seemingly standing grain. Cut grain with the heads still on the stalk. You can tie the grain into a bunch of smaller bundles and then line them up to clamp in between two boards. Then stand up the clamped grain vertically or to droop into the quail's reach. This can be repeated to educate new groups of bobwhite quail. As for predators, possible ideas are to play sounds of bobwhite quail in distress, while showing a poster or large lifelike decoys of the predators. If really needed, perhaps a trained hawk could catch one culled bobwhite quail in view of the other bobwhite quail. It may sound harsh, but nature does not pamper weak wildlife. As to broodiness, I don't know if this would work, but can you play an audio of a mother bobwhite on a nest or with chicks?
They're actually called bobwhite partridges or simply bobwhites, bobwhites are partridges not quails, bobwhites belong to the subfamily Dendrortyginae, where members are referred to as new world partridges.
Got get this holistically figured-out. Bobwhites will become the next prairie chicken-a novelty species confined to refuges in much of its range. Landscapes and modern farming just leave nothing synergistically for this great resource. No, pen reared birds are not part of this formula.
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Were any attempts made to educate the bobwhite quail on realistically foraging or to identify and fear predators before being released?
To be more realistic on foraging, the fenced enclosure can have a few rows of seemingly standing grain. Cut grain with the heads still on the stalk. You can tie the grain into a bunch of smaller bundles and then line them up to clamp in between two boards. Then stand up the clamped grain vertically or to droop into the quail's reach.
This can be repeated to educate new groups of bobwhite quail.
As for predators, possible ideas are to play sounds of bobwhite quail in distress, while showing a poster or large lifelike decoys of the predators. If really needed, perhaps a trained hawk could catch one culled bobwhite quail in view of the other bobwhite quail. It may sound harsh, but nature does not pamper weak wildlife.
As to broodiness, I don't know if this would work, but can you play an audio of a mother bobwhite on a nest or with chicks?
Sounds like they are trying to avoid the preditors hearing them!
They're actually called bobwhite partridges or simply bobwhites, bobwhites are partridges not quails, bobwhites belong to the subfamily Dendrortyginae, where members are referred to as new world partridges.
Got get this holistically figured-out. Bobwhites will become the next prairie chicken-a novelty species confined to refuges in much of its range. Landscapes and modern farming just leave nothing synergistically for this great resource. No, pen reared birds are not part of this formula.