More information about Mountain Quail in SE WA.
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> From: "Russell Rogers" <ROGERRER at dfw.wa.gov>
> Date: March 15, 2005 8:52:31 AM PST
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> Subject: Fwd:Mountain quail released in southeast Washington
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> Subject: Mountain quail released in southeast Washington
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>
> NEWS RELEASE
> WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
> 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, Washington 98501-1091
> Internet Address: http://wdfw.wa.gov
>
> March 15, 2005
>
> Contact: Paul Wik, (509) 758-3972
> or Pat Fowler, (509) 526-4377
>
>
> Mountain quail released in southeast Washington
>
> ASOTIN * Seventy-three mountain quail from Oregon recently were
> released in southeast Washington's Asotin County, in an effort to
> boost a population of the native birds that has nearly vanished
> locally.
>
> Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) biologists,
> University of Idaho researchers and others transported the quail to
> the Asotin Wildlife Area on March 12 and released them in the brushy,
> streamside habitat the birds favor.
>
> The quail were captured in southwest Oregon in December and held at a
> game farm in southeast Washington until weather conditions permitted
> their release. Before the release, 50 of the birds were fitted with
> radio telemetry equipment to allow researchers to monitor their
> movements, habitat use and productivity over the next six months.
>
> "We hope these birds help restore a healthy population," said WDFW
> wildlife biologist Paul Wik of Clarkston. "We thought the species was
> extirpated from this area until a valid sighting was reported near the
> Asotin Wildlife Area last summer."
>
> The Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) is an 11-inch bird with
> gray-brown plumage above, chestnut throat outlined in white, gray
> breast, and chestnut sides boldly barred with white. It bears two
> long, thin head plumes that often appear as one?longer and straighter
> than the head plumes of commonly seen California quail.
>
> Washington's only native quail species, mountain quail are at the edge
> of their range in the state, with historically larger populations in
> Oregon and California. Western Washington locales in Kitsap, Mason,
> Grays Harbor, Thurston and other counties support populations large
> enough to allow a limited hunting season, but the eastern part of the
> state is closed to mountain quail hunting.
>
> Eastern Washington mountain quail numbers are thought to have declined
> in recent decades due to habitat degradation, fragmentation or removal
> of the riparian or streamside deciduous shrub thickets they depend on
> in arid areas.
>
> "They don't usually move far," Wik explained, "so when suitable
> patches of habitat were lost, they probably became isolated."
>
> The released birds are likely to disperse across public lands such as
> WDFW's wildlife areas or U.S. Forest Service property where riparian
> habitats are protected.
>
> Future mountain quail releases are planned for next year if more birds
> are available from Oregon or other areas with robust populations.
>
> If an eastern Washington population does well over time, a limited
> hunting season may be possible in the future, WDFW game managers say.
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