Amidst Changing Landscapes, Scaled Quail are West Texas Survivors

from Nature Notes · host Andrew Stuart

Scaled quail – also known as blue quail and “cottontops” – are quintessential creatures of the arid grasslands and the dominant quail species in West Texas. Researchers at Alpine’s Borderlands Research Institute are learing how adaptable these seemingly vulnerable creatures are.

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