They kill several endangered species, including the Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Key Largo wood rat, northern
bobwhite quail and hatchling sea turtles.
Alcock still holds out a cattle - free Arizona as his long - term goal, and this is where the masked
bobwhite of his title come in.
Each year more than a hundred miles of sesbania, lespedeza and
other bobwhite foods are planted to supplement the natural broom sedge.
The same trend also held when Templeton introduced a cat and a ferret, which both eat birds, but not when he added a small yet
harmless bobwhite quail, which suggests that chickadees base their calls on more than size.
Free - ranging cats can be especially damaging to ground - feeding and nesting animals such
as bobwhite quail, wrens, cardinals, loggerhead shrikes, towhees, rabbits and lizards.
Recently, we decided to generate greater biodiversity of the NHES Campus by modifying our landscape to better support species such as the increasingly rare monarch butterfly and the
northern bobwhite.
The bobwhite is not the only bird affected by human activity in Arizona, however.
After some unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce
the bobwhite, the US Fish and Wildlife Service bought, for almost $ 9 million, 21 000 acres of ranchland, and fenced it to exclude cattle.
To my mind, it's a dog of
the bobwhite plantation of the Deep South.