Folks - we live in a sad and terrifying time for our beloved non-migratory gamebirds. Grouse, feral pheasant and gentleman Bob.
I think fire ants are a very valid theory but it has been proven as both a factor and as a non-factor. Just as the spread of disease through mold and chemical on deer corn piles, chemicals ingested through eating soybeans, the isolation of suitable habitat due to development, etc etc etc.
My chips are on a disease. Or some major chain in the plants that make-up their diet.
Or round-up?
One thing for sure is that they havent just disappeared - they have disappeared. Yet no one but a few remaining bird hunters seem to care.
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