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Houston Chronicle’s Shannon Tompkins on Bobwhites

  • November 12, 2013
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“Quail, for all their fragility, can be amazingly resilient birds, with pairs producing multiple clutches of young when conditions are at their best. So all is not lost if an area can maintain suitable habitat and weather gives the birds and their landscape a break.” Read more of what Shannon Tompkins writes in his look at the Texas quail situation in a recent story in the Houston Chronicle.

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