My father is out and about around the country quite a bit and he said he knows of exactly one covey of wild quail that can be found on a regular basis there around home. Plenty of cover for them down home, lots of public land that isn't farmed, etc etc. It just seems to me that if you look at the time frame of when all these chemical fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides came into such general use you'll find a correlation. In Southern Illinois they were essentially gone by the late 70's. Roundup was first marketed in 1973.....
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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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