[TN-Bird] more quail
- From: terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:40:33 +0000
I appreciate all the interest and postings - thought I might hit a nerve.
I am dubious that habitat change is the major factor in the quail population
plunge and equally skeptical that hunting pressure is playing a major role
though it can't help the situation. Something else is going on and the quail
seem to be paralleling the Loggerhead Shrike shrinkage (pun intended) at least
around here. There is no shortage of shrike habitat, no hunting, just a marked
disappearance of shrikes, for no apparent reason.
It just seems to me that if TWRA is trying to manage wildlife populations, and
a species is in decline for whatever reason, continuing to harvest individuals
by hunting is nonsensical. I can see a lot more reason to have an open season
on Sandhill Cranes which have a non-threatened and increasing population (I
don't favor this), than continuing to hunt a species which clearly has
undergone a rapid fall in numbers. One of the major benefits of all the
various bird counts we all participate in is to monitor populations. If the
data is available but ignored, what is the point of identifying these trends??
When several years ago, the pothole duck populations fell, there were changes
in hunting seasons, bag limits, etc. All the National Wildlife Refuges in the
state were either closed or had drastic restrictions on winter access. Why not
the same logic with the quail?? Seems like a no-brainer, unless it is blocked
by the hunting lobbies.
Cheers
Terry Witt
Murfreesboro Tn
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