The wild quail have disappeared from nearly their entire range east of the Mississippi. There were still a few wild birds in Southern Illinois when I was a kid but by the time I got old enough to hunt all the folks in my family had stopped even keeping dogs.
I think it's predation and farm chemicals that have done it to the quail and the pheasants here in the East. Think about when they really started spraying hard, that's about the time the game birds and rabbits began to disappear.
Destry
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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