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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2020, 09:19:54 AM »
Thanks for the awesome tips.

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2020, 10:30:43 AM »
For the long term, plant shelterbelts consisting of conifer roosting cover and seed and fruit bearing trees and shrubs.  Your local NRCS office and ODFW private lands habitat program personnel in the wildlife division should be able to provide info.  Be specific about what your goals are, as they tend to default to native plants restoration if you go with generic "habitat improvement".  If you are specific about what you want, i.e., "increase quail", "increase game", "increase upland birds" you'll do better and get better.  Pheasants Forever, Quail Unlimited and NWTF also have programs and technical staff to assist landowners, and most of them have plenty of knowledge for all upland game birds.  They can also help avoid pitfalls with plantings that are beneficial for game but may be regulated as noxious weeds in your local area - Russian olive and chufa are two that come to mind.  There are likely cost share programs you might be interested in where your labor counts as your cost share and they provide the supplies or cover those costs. 

Annual crop strips (wheat, millet, oats) next to dense hiding cover, water-adjacent to cover, etc.  The key to increasing upland bird numbers is providing food, water and cover in a pattern where they are in the open as little as possible. 

Almost anything you do will increase mule deer too, a nice bonus.  Leave the raptors alone but active control of raccoons, skunks, fox (if any) and especially feral cats will help.  IF coons, skunks, fox and/or feral cats are around, I would not hammer coyotes extremely aggressively they do a better job of suppressing those superior ground nesting bird predators than they impact game birds.  If you get resident bobcats you might consider controlling them, they do a good job on the smaller predators but are really good at hunting game birds.
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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2020, 01:15:46 PM »
Remember that baby quail must have insects for survival.  Plantings like winter canola and sweet clover are insect factories and provide cover while the little buzz bombs feed. 

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2020, 01:19:36 PM »
Stack brush piles of tree and brush trimmings. Quail love them.

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2020, 09:52:36 PM »
Stack brush piles of tree and brush trimmings. Quail love them.
Nothing like a little cover to hold a covey.  :tup:
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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2021, 08:54:05 AM »
Anybody have pictures of quail condo made out of pallets? I have a bunch of pallets but noticed our quail have been disappearing

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2021, 02:23:30 PM »
Anybody have pictures of quail condo made out of pallets? I have a bunch of pallets but noticed our quail have been disappearing

Just stack 2-4 pallets secure them together. Put a piece of old tin on top and toss some brush on it. It creates space in the middle, is harder for predators to enter and the brush slows down the wind so they don't have to work as hard to stay warm.
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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2021, 03:38:39 PM »
Anybody have pictures of quail condo made out of pallets? I have a bunch of pallets but noticed our quail have been disappearing

Just stack 2-4 pallets secure them together. Put a piece of old tin on top and toss some brush on it. It creates space in the middle, is harder for predators to enter and the brush slows down the wind so they don't have to work as hard to stay warm.

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2021, 05:41:23 PM »
Put up a No Hunting sign. Within minutes you'll have fifty of the buggers scratching around it.

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Re: Quail habitat
« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2021, 07:30:50 PM »


This is what works on the west side.
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