Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist Jim Pitman listens for calling bobwhite quail Wednesday morning. Several birds were heard at this stop.
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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist Jim Pitman listens for calling bobwhite quail Wednesday morning. Several males were heard whistling from this spot.
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Biologist Jim Pitman checks a GPS to follow a route for listening for bobwhite quail.
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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist Jim Pitman listens for calling bobwhite quail Wednesday morning. No birds were heard at this stop.
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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist Jim Pitman listens for calling bobwhite quail Wednesday morning. No birds were heard at this stop.
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Jared McJunkin, left, of the National Wild Turkey Federation, looks at a new buffer strip Clint Bowman, right, planted at the Melvern Wildlife Area. NWTF has donated money and man-power to the new Kansas Quail Initiative.
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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism biologist Jim Pitman listens for calling bobwhite quail Wednesday morning. No birds were heard at this stop.
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Biologist Clint Bowman shows how cutting and burning a treeline, and letting natural grass and forbs grow, can greatly improve quail habitat. Wildlife and Parks is hoping their new Kansas Quail Initiative will encourage landowners to replicate the process on private lands.
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Removing trees is a prime tool to increase quail numbers. Trees shade out useful plants and provide perches for aerial predators.
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Biologists are hoping the new Kansas Quail Initiative will reverse a long-term decline in bobwhite populations in two eastern Kansas areas.
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Biologists are hoping the new Kansas Quail Initiative will reverse a long-term decline in bobwhite populations in two eastern Kansas areas.
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Biologist Clint Bowman, left, explains how quail habitat will be improved at the Melvern Wildlife Area to Jim Pitman and Jared McJunkin. Crop fields leading directly to woodlands is one reason quail numbers have suffered over much of eastern Kansas.
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