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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

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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

13 Slideshow

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