Quail

Land & Conservation
Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas
The East Foundation is on the cutting edge of studying how working landscapes can work for people, cattle, quail, and wildlife of all stripes

The Wild South
Southern Conundrum: Is It Okay to Hunt Singles After You Flush a Covey of Quail?
A few thoughts on tradition versus science versus ethics in the quail woods

Sporting Scene
Lobbing for Bobwhites
Making a difference for wild quail has never been easier

Food & Drink
Southern Fried Quail with a French Twist
Chef Nicolas Lebas upgrades the fall bird with cornflakes, an apple slaw stuffing, and a red bell pepper glaze

Sporting
A Coastal Plain Quail Retreat
From hardscrabble roots, a onetime farmer creates his quail woods dreams in North Carolina, where good dogs and great friends make memories that stretch beyond the field

Food & Drink
Cast Iron Chicken-Fried Quail
How a Texas couple fries fall’s favorite bird

Southern Heroes
Ronald Kendall: The Quail Doctor
The Texan is helping bring back the bobwhite, icon of Southern game birds

Sporting
For the Love of Quail
When the Rollins family isn’t overseeing a vast business empire and philanthropic foundations, you’ll find them among the Old Florida live oaks and cabbage palms of Blue Cypress Ranch, where the bobwhite is king—and a kennel of American-bred British Labrador retrievers is turning heads in the dog world

Style
A Stylish British Invasion
An English designer looks to the Southwest Georgia quail set for her new apparel line

Food & Drink
Quail with Grapes and Pearl Onions
A Mediterranean take on the South’s favorite game bird

Hurricane Michael
What Hurricane Michael Did to Quail Country
After slamming into the Gulf Coast, Michael set its sights on some of the South’s most cherished pine forests

Ask G&G
The Tao of Quail
Aerial maneuvers, Delaware claims, and football rivalry niceties

Sporting
Call of the Quail
Few things top a great day in the field with good friends, fine bird dogs, and plenty of quail. A photographer captures the beauty and joy of a Southern tradition

Sporting
Following the Call of the Quail
Step into the field for a photographic ode to good times, great dogs, and the joy of a Southern quail hunt

Sporting South
Finest Afield
When quail season winds down, an elite group of handlers who keep the bird dogs on point in the famed Red Hills hold a friendly competition to see who has the top dog

What's in Season
No-Fail Quail
Whether you bag them or buy them, this bird makes a terrific addition to any festive spread

Sporting
The Plantation Broker
There’s no finer quail country than the Red Hills, 300,000 acres of longleaf and wiregrass and home to more than a hundred sprawling plantations. Who’d have thought a real estate broker would become its unofficial steward?

Sporting Scene
The Quail Field Primeval
How a North Carolina plantation turned back the clock on bobwhite habitat

Sporting Scene
North Carolina’s George Hi Plantation
Where the quail feel right at home

Conservation
The Case of the Vanishing Quail
Texas researchers identify a new threat to the bobwhite