Yes indeed. Farms full of coveys and when you busted one you left it alone and found another. Even into the early 80's we had wild coveys. It seems everyone had a wild hair to clean up their farms and fence rows wiping out the birds habitat as well as that of rabbit. Coyote started to repopulate the countryside and even groundhogs became scarce. We have left the center of a field overgrow which gives us deer and wild turkey, but no birds. When we put raised birds out they don't know how to survive.
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