Texas Quail Hunting Forecast 2023

It’s been a while since Texas quail hunters have had much to crow about. Barring a few modest upticks, quail populations have pretty much been in the dumps for years.

Experts point to everything from habitat loss/ fragmentation, prolonged drought, predation and parasites as the causes for the puzzling decline, and millions of dollars raised by special interest groups like the Quail Coalition out of Dallas have been spent on research projects aimed in hopes of finding solutions to help reverse it.

Texas has four species of quail — northern bobwhites, scaled quail, Gambel’s quail and Montezuma quail. Bobwhites are the most common, but way less abundant now than they once were.