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covey of quail
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5196680" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>I suspect you may have had two coveys which just happened to intersect their daily travels a bit.</p><p>They don't typically travel far in a year, so both coveys may co-exist in same general area of less than a hundred acres or so.</p><p></p><p>The biggest ongoing challenge may be an issue of contiguous good quail habitat stretching over at least a thousand acres (relatively rare now in TN). But almost everything else is going against these birds' sustainability over a period of years. Good habitat has become but one piece of a large quail puzzle.</p><p></p><p>Nesting success is important, but becomes mute if the baby chicks have nothing to eat (mainly insects). Can also become mute if there isn't enough protective cover (native weeds & grasses) where the chicks hunt for insects.</p><p></p><p>P.S. Fescue (most TN hay fields) is <em>NOT</em> a native grass, and eradicating it over a large area may be one of the biggest specific challenges in enhancing the possibilities for quail to thrive in your area.</p><p></p><p>Then, there are those pesky Cooper's hawks.</p><p>One of these little hawks can wipe out all the young chicks in a matter of days.</p><p>Those particular hawks will simply stay with the young covey, 24/7 until all they catch all or most the chicks, then move on to another covey or just hunting other things.</p><p></p><p>Not that coyotes don't get some, but suspect they are more egg-eaters, along with raccoons, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5196680, member: 1409"] I suspect you may have had two coveys which just happened to intersect their daily travels a bit. They don't typically travel far in a year, so both coveys may co-exist in same general area of less than a hundred acres or so. The biggest ongoing challenge may be an issue of contiguous good quail habitat stretching over at least a thousand acres (relatively rare now in TN). But almost everything else is going against these birds' sustainability over a period of years. Good habitat has become but one piece of a large quail puzzle. Nesting success is important, but becomes mute if the baby chicks have nothing to eat (mainly insects). Can also become mute if there isn't enough protective cover (native weeds & grasses) where the chicks hunt for insects. P.S. Fescue (most TN hay fields) is [I]NOT[/I] a native grass, and eradicating it over a large area may be one of the biggest specific challenges in enhancing the possibilities for quail to thrive in your area. Then, there are those pesky Cooper's hawks. One of these little hawks can wipe out all the young chicks in a matter of days. Those particular hawks will simply stay with the young covey, 24/7 until all they catch all or most the chicks, then move on to another covey or just hunting other things. Not that coyotes don't get some, but suspect they are more egg-eaters, along with raccoons, etc. [/QUOTE]
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