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| Keywords: The calls are hard to hear even with volume set on high. This bird has been heard for the past 3 days near my house in the grasslands near Patagonia Lake, Santa Cruz Co, AZ. The recording is a compilation of several calls over a two-day period, spliced into one "movie". I have not visualized the bird, despite 3-4 hours of tracking. It appears very shy and will not allow approach of less than 100 yards. From David Griffin: "There are no official "introductions" and yours and previous posters with bobwhites are likely encountering birds that were released by hunting dog trainers. They was Northern bobwhite to train dogs. There are probably far more people than you would guess who are raising bobwhite for various reasons. There have not been any releases of the "Masked" bobwhite in the Patagonia area or anywhere in AZ away from the Buenos Aires NWR since the late 1960s/early 1970s. The northern bobwhite may be able to survive for a few weeks to in rare circumstances months or maybe even over winter, but there are no documented cases of them breeding in the wild here. People from the Vail area and Las Cienegas have also been reporting bobwhites this season. I've been doing some bird survey work along riparian areas at Buenos Aires NWR and each morning I'm reminded of how much one particular call of the Yellow-breasted chat sounds like the beginning whistle of the bobwhite's call." The calls are hard to hear even with volume set on high. This bird has been heard for the past 3 days near my house in the grasslands near Patagonia Lake, Santa Cruz Co, AZ. The recording is a compilation of several calls over a two-day period, spliced into one "movie". I have not visualized the bird, despite 3-4 hours of tracking. It appears very shy and will not allow approach of less than 100 yards. From David Griffin: "There are no official "introductions" and yours and previous posters with bobwhites are likely encountering birds that were released by hunting dog trainers. They was Northern bobwhite to train dogs. There are probably far more people than you would guess who are raising bobwhite for various reasons. There have not been any releases of the "Masked" bobwhite in the Patagonia area or anywhere in AZ away from the Buenos Aires NWR since the late 1960s/early 1970s. The northern bobwhite may be able to survive for a few weeks to in rare circumstances months or maybe even over winter, but there are no documented cases of them breeding in the wild here. People from the Vail area and Las Cienegas have also been reporting bobwhites this season. I've been doing some bird survey work along riparian areas at Buenos Aires NWR and each morning I'm reminded of how much one particular call of the Yellow-breasted chat sounds like the beginning whistle of the bobwhite's call." | ||||
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