Good News for NJ Quail

[FLDBRED-BDC]

Very encouraging!

http://njenvironmentnews.com/2017/07/07/audubon-brings-northern-bobwhite-quail-back-new-jersey/

 

[GhostBear]

Wasted effort, the habitat will continue to fragment with continued home and strip mall building. Not only that but these Georgia birds likely not as cold tolerant as the local birds. Quail will ever only be put and take.

[boomsox24]

Well the pines is a vast area particularly this particular property. Haines is the biggest landowner in the state. The Georgia birds have already proven they can survive the winters here as this is year three of the project.

[GhostBear]

That's great, I would've thought they'd suffer cold stress here in jersey.

[tick trawler]

There are too many predators both avian and mammalian for any quail population to become established.  There isn't even the foggiest notion or suggestion of this issue being resolved. 

 

http://www.njaudubon.org/SectionConservation/StewardshipProgam/StewardshipBlog/tabid/2006/entryid/308/Restoring-Habitat-and-Re-Establishing-Northern-Bobwhite-in-the-Pinelands-of-New-Jersey-UPDATE.aspx

 

"Most of the mortality occurred within the first 20 days and has largely been attributed to avian predators."

[LittleM]

 

There are too many predators both avian and mammalian for any quail population to become established

How do they survive elsewhere?

[Swamprat]

Would love to see it flourish but I don't think it will. Every hedgerow has a bird of prey on each end.

Not sure what's more frustrating.... Watching Cormorants eating stocked trout or Cooper's nailing pheasant repeatedly.

[Rusty]

I was out in Jim Thorpe Pa and we had quail walking around under our picnic tables looking for food.  There were hundreds of people there and the quail couldn't care less.  

[FLDBRED-BDC]

I was out in Jim Thorpe Pa and we had quail walking around under our picnic tables looking for food.  There were hundreds of people there and the quail couldn't care less.  

 

Do you think these were wild quail or recently released pen raised birds?

[hemlock]

Do you think these were wild quail or recently released pen raised birds?

 

They were pigeons that looked like quail after he drank a few of Haskell hunters pints of home brew lol

[Rusty]

Do you think these were wild quail or recently released pen raised birds?

 

I'm assuming wild birds since it was the middle of the summer.  

[Rusty]

They were pigeons that looked like quail after he drank a few of Haskell hunters pints of home brew lol

 

You know you could be right.  There was also that pesky giraffe that kept running by too.  

[bigwuhead]

They have been putting a lot of work and effort into this.  The State NWTF Chapter is involved so I know a little bit about it.  They tried once, on a different tract, but the snakes and other predators were just too much to handle.  This particular track of land holds a lot of promise and there's a LOT of support for the project.  It's still in the very early stages but it is promising.

[Batsto]

There are some wild quail down by the Delaware Bay. Very few, but they struggle with all the predators. There used to be thousands of them in the Batsto/Hammonton area in the blueberry fields before herbicides. Even in the late 80s we would let my springer chase them in our Marlton development in Kings Grant. Loss of habitat, herbicides and predators slowly killed off the quail population.

Edited July 11, 2017 by Batsto

[Mink]

That's great news. I can remember quail being as far north as Oldbridge and Morganville .