At the end of June I shared my experience of watching a summer day dawn on the landscape, while conducting quail and grassland songbird surveys in one of our Quail Focus Areas in northern Missouri. On these June mornings, I join dozens of volunteers in seven states piloting a national effort to inventory habitat conditions and bird populations within designated quail focus areas.

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Authors: whitew

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The University of Missouri Bradford Research Center, outside of Columbia, held a “Bobwhite Quail and Native Pollinator Field Day” on June 20th. One of the stations on the evening wagon tour was a stop to discuss habitat management techniques and a demonstration on how to conduct a fall bobwhite quail covey count. We had set up electronic game callers that played the quail covey call that landowners would hear in the autumn if they wanted to conduct covey counts on their properties.

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Authors: whitew

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I have been leaving the house around 4 AM each…

<div class=”field field-type-nodereference field-field-bio-reference”><div class=”field-items”><div class=”field-item odd”> Bill White </div></div></div><div class=”field field-type-text field-field-teaser”><div class=”field-items”><div class=”field-item odd”><p>Pollinators provide assistance to fruit, vegetable and seed crops, but many native pollinator species are declining. Join us at the University of Missouri’s Bradford Research Center for a bobwhite quail and native pollinator field day Thursday, June 20, 1-7 p.m.</p></div></div></div><p>The University of Missouri’s Bradford Research C…</p>

The Summer Covey Headquarters Newsletter is now available click here to view it

In this issue –

Brood habitat information

Nesting notes

Bradford Farm quail and pollinator field day

The mowing “dead zone”

Conservation Reserve Program mid-contract management calendar and much more

If the above link doesn’t work, go to mdc.mo.gov and type “2013 summer covey headquarters newsletter” in the search box.

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Authors: whitew

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<div class=”field field-type-nodereference field-field-bio-reference”><div class=”field-items”><div class=”field-item odd”> Bill White </div></div></div><div class=”field field-type-text field-field-teaser”><div class=”field-items”><div class=”field-item odd”><p>On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Field and Stream is bringing their “Hero for a Day” event to Crowley’s Ridge Conservation Area near Bloomfield, Missouri.</p></div></div></div><p>Volunteers are being solicited to help the Department, the American Bird Conservancy and the local Quail Forever chapter to clear brush and trees and to build…</p>

COLUMBIA, Mo.–The University of Missouri’s Bradford Research Center will host a bobwhite quail and native pollinator field day Thursday, June 20, 1-7 p.m.

The free event…

CRP Workshops are being held for landowners and agricultural producers in advance of the USDA Farm Service Agency’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up that runs May 20th through June 14th. Led by Quail Foreve, Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation and Missouri Department of Conservation staff, landowners can learn how to increase their farm or ranch income while creating wildlife habitat in the process.

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Authors: whitew

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2012 proved to be another one of those years tough on quail in many areas of the state. While many of us thought that the drier spring helped produce one of the best quail hatches in recent memory, our hopes were soon dashed when the dry spring turned into the drought of a lifetime.

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Authors: whitew

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