We still have lots of turkeys in this country.
Same here, Bob. Probably more Turkey than quail.
We had tons of both blue or “scaled” quail and Bob whites here on the Ranch when I was a kid.
Haven’t seen a blue in years. Occasionally see a bob white.
The quail population start to decline here when we became inundated with wild hogs.
Well we don't have any wild hogs here either. But we have foxes and coyotes.
And a plethora of bobcats and hawks and raccoons and skunks and bulldozed hedgerows and weed free corn fields and a desert of fescue (here) and and….
Yep. But probably the modern practice of fence to fence crop planting and the destruction of “hedge rows” or the weedy areas for cover and food, have done more damage to quail populations than anything else. And as for as predators, the birds of prey, like hawks, probably kill more quail than other predators.
Hogs and fire ants are hell on nests, eggs, and chicks.
