Quail Forever was born on this date in 2005! Today, we celebrate 19 years of conservation successes and want to THANK all our members, volunteers, partners, and donors. In FY2024, Quail Forever met with 13,235 landowners to improve 704,580 acres across the quail range! Combined with 305,865 acres of restored and enhanced habitat through strike teams, prescribed burn associations, and habitat project contracting, the organization pushed the limits of its work into the 1-million-acre realm. QF also hired its first-ever dedicated state policy manager so we can be more effective closer to home, and have worked tirelessly to ensure upland policy priorities for quail and other wildlife are included in the next Farm Bill. Across the quail range, it’s imperative we plant and nurture the seeds for the roots of a better future. A future where we conserve America’s cherished uplands and work together to restore the critical, early successional habitat required for our favorite bird to thrive. #quailforever

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Quail Fact Friday!💡 Did you know that all quail species typically only lay around one egg per day? So how do quail hatch at the same time? The answer is a fascinating one: after being laid, the embryo inside an egg pauses development until it reaches “physiological zero.” In humans, the term physiological zero refers to the temperature that your skin will perceive as neither warm nor cold and is around 80 degrees. For birds like quail, eggs that are cooler than their physiological zero will remain in a kind of suspended animation until they reach the proper temperature by being incubated by their mother. This is crucial for quail because they lay large clutches of eggs. It allows them to lay around one egg a day for up to several weeks, then start incubating them all at once. After the required incubation period, the entire clutch hatches within a few hours of each other, even though the earlier eggs are many days older than the last eggs that were laid. Incredible! #quailforever #quail #quailfactfriday

The Upland Newsroom - June

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