BLUE QUAIL TRANSLOCATION: Bringing a game species back 
to the Rolling Plains ... ahead on Passport to Texas. 

This is Passport to Texas

07 -- Five ... four ... three ... two ... one... [Birds flutter].

That's Dale Rollins Director of the Rolling Plains Quail 
Research Ranch. Along with TPW his group released 88 
wild-caught blue quail on the Matador Wildlife 
Management Area early last year.
 
13 -- So we've been trapping wild birds out in the San Angelo 
area and moving those here and testing two release styles to 
see which one, if either, is going to be an effective way of 
restoring blue quail to this country.

Blue quail, once plentiful in the Rolling Plains, have been 
absent for years. Various partners joined to reestablish 
populations of blue quail on public and private land. 
Researchers outfitted thirty-nine of the birds with tiny 
radio collars to track their movements. TPW Biologist, 
Kara Campbell.

19 -- We'll try and keep tabs on them, are they staying on the 
area, are they leaving the area, where they are moving and also 
survival. We're just really excited to be part of it. This is the 
beginning stages and so you know it phase one pilot stage. And 
to be part of that is pretty neat. And we'll see where it goes in 
the future.

Learn about blue quail on the TPW website.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation supports our 
series and helps to keep Texas wild with the support of 
proud members across the state. Find out more at 
tpwf.org

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.






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