Bobwhite quail introduction

[Michael Gochfeld]

I don't know about the Bobwhite Quail introduction in New York and
whether it was sportsmen or game departments. 

In New Jersey the Bobwhite are raised by commercial farms and released
for hunting on those farms.  They may also be sold to the State for
release on Wildlife Management Areas; I'm not sure about that. Well
sportsmen and game departments play a role, but it is the commercial
farms that raise and release. ---sound familiar.  MIKE GOCHFELD

"Rob (Robert) Hilton" wrote:
> 
> At 10:21 AM 09/23/1999 -0400, Ted Ryznar wrote:
> >Why were they brought in in the first place?  When I was growing up they
> >were common. I used to enjoy hearing them. They completely disappeared.
> >Habitat destruction and insecticide overuse I would suspect. so what is
> >wrong for sportsmen to try to re-introduce the species? Maybe not. At least
> >they got off of their behinds and tried to do something. I always read
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In New York the southern quail that sportsmen brought in (to augment
> over-hunted quail) were not adapted to the northern winters.  They were
> brought in in such numbers that they swamped the native birds that were
> adapted to the climate.  The result?  A genetically maladapted population
> that cannot survive the climate.  It was the same species but the
> individuals were from a different population.
> 
> In my first post I said nothing about the rightness or wrongness of
> re-introduction.  Nor did I say that sportsmen (or the game department)
> brought the birds in.  I was showing what happened by releasing individuals
> of a non-indigenous conspecific population.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Rob