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Why is it

important to
Bobwhite
Bobwhite Quail
protect Bobwhite
Quial Fun Facts Quail

They look dead while


they sleep.
The Bobwhite hen
Quails eat tick, so there
lays 10-20 white
wont be too many ticks
eggs(more than
in the forest.
almost any other
Population of Bobwhite's
bird.
are decreasing because
Northern Bobwhite
people hunt them and
can survive more
predators.
than 6 years in the
Pesticide sprays can
wild.
danger there food
Quails can only fly a
supply.
short distance.
Pesticide spray can also
Quails usually live
damage the
alone, but they form
environment.
flocks in the fall.
Bobwhite Where are they Caring for your Bobwhite
Quail Anatomy found/ Quail:Diet,Behavior,&
what is their Niche? Habitat
The Bobwhite can
range from 24 to 28 They live in United
cm, in length with a States,Mexico,and the
33 to 38 cm. Caribean.
They live in agriculture
The name fields, grasslands, open
"Bobwhite" derives Put them in the
pine or pine-hardwood
Incubator.
from its forest.
Use pine
characteristic They travel in coveys and shavings,grass hay,
whistling call. run across the ground straw, or even sand will
from the shelter of one work.
Male bobwhite shrubby patch to another. Feed them
birds have white During snowfalls, insects,seeds,nuts and
throat with the Bobwhites depend on different berries.
body having a woody cover. Keep them in cages,
brown to blackish Bobwhites eat pens, Rabbit hutches.
color. mostly seeds and Build the house so
leaves, with varying predators cant eat
amounts of insects. them.

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