Yet people spend thousands of dollars and endless hours of labor destroying the Quails habitat, right down to weedeated fence lines.
Don't wanna leave them birds a square inch of cover.
Easy to place the blame of lack of birds on everything else while you sit back sipping coffee looking across your manicured 2 acre plot.
I have purposely left the fencerows alone on my farms, even though it results in smaller fields that are hard to farm with today's large equipment, and reduced crop yields. They have been as they are now for my lifetime, 72 years, and the quail still disappeared. I agree that habitat is a large part of it, but there is more going on than just that. The turkeys here are not reproducing, as I've yet to see any young ones, and I've seen a bunch of hens.
