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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5130614" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>I agree.</p><p>To add to what has been "constant",</p><p>there has been a steady increase in raptors, while bobcats & coyote have come from near non-existence to high numbers, while steadily "evolving" to<em> DAYTIME</em> hunt turkeys, which has resulted in their stumbling into more quail.</p><p></p><p>The other constant has been the progressive increase in insecticide use, along with the progressive decrease in good contiguous quail habitat. Young quail survive on insects. "Clean" farming usually cleans out many the insects as well.</p><p></p><p>As to why you may be finding more birds now in less than stellar habitat, possibly an adaptation by the surviving quail, as maybe they're more vulnerable to predation in "better" quail habitat? Maybe young quail are more likely to find insects in the woods than in a "clean" farmer's field?</p><p></p><p>When quail successfully nest in good quail habitat, but there are no insects for those just hatched chicks to eat, they all die.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5130614, member: 1409"] I agree. To add to what has been "constant", there has been a steady increase in raptors, while bobcats & coyote have come from near non-existence to high numbers, while steadily "evolving" to[I] DAYTIME[/I] hunt turkeys, which has resulted in their stumbling into more quail. The other constant has been the progressive increase in insecticide use, along with the progressive decrease in good contiguous quail habitat. Young quail survive on insects. "Clean" farming usually cleans out many the insects as well. As to why you may be finding more birds now in less than stellar habitat, possibly an adaptation by the surviving quail, as maybe they're more vulnerable to predation in "better" quail habitat? Maybe young quail are more likely to find insects in the woods than in a "clean" farmer's field? When quail successfully nest in good quail habitat, but there are no insects for those just hatched chicks to eat, they all die. [/QUOTE]
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