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🕊️ Northern Bobwhite

Quail · breed reference

CHECK THE LAW FIRST — the whistling “bob-WHITE!” of eastern farm country is a NATIVE GAME BIRD: most states require a game-bird breeder's permit to keep or propagate it, and releasing birds — the usual point, for dog training and put-and-take — needs its own authorization. That permit is cheap and routine in most states, and pen-raising bobwhite is a real industry running to millions of birds a year. Wild populations have fallen roughly 80% since the sixties, which is why. Seasonal spring layer, 23 days in the shell, and BOTH PARENTS brood — everything the Coturnix gave up.