Upland Hunting Tactics with onX: Public Land Bobwhite Quail

As part of our ongoing “Upland Hunting Tactics” series, Quail Forever’s Chad Love and Brett Haverkamp are joined by onX Hunt’s Ben Brettingen to show you how the onX Hunt App can help you hunt public land bobwhite quail more efficiently and effectively.
Taking place over the backdrop of a public land quail hunt in Kansas, the crew will show you how to scout, search for diverse habitat, and utilize popular onX Hunt layers and tools to execute a game plan that will hopefully help you slide a few more quail in your gamebag this season.
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[@jeffreylocke8808]

Thanks for posting this. I live in Missouri now but lived my life in Kansas till I retired from teaching.

[@BrokenBarBox]

Hey! It’s the Ron Spomer Outdoors theme song 😃

[@kyle-ri5mz]

FINAL RISE

[@robertvroegh9354]

I love to hunt Bob whites. Always thought they were quail. Hmmm!

[@indyreno2933]

They're actually called bobwhite partridges or simply bobwhites, bobwhites are partridges not quails, bobwhites belong to the subfamily Dendrortyginae, where members are referred to as new world partridges.

[@indyreno2933]

@Ben B, actually, Phasianidae is restricted to only the pheasants, monals, monal partridges, and tragopans, the jungle partridges, old world partridges and quails, grouse, turkeys, koklass pheasants, chickens, bamboo partridges, francolins, spurfowl, peafowl, arguses, peacock pheasants, crimson-headed partridge, indochinese forest partridges, snowcocks, dwarf quails, malagasy partridge, and desert partridges are all relocated to the families Rollulidae, Perdicidae, Tetraonidae, and Gallidae respectively, the latter three of these families are actually more closely related to the Odontophoridae family than they are to Phasianidae, with the family Perdicidae (Old World Partridges and Quails) being the sister group to Odontophoridae (New World Partridges and Quails), both families are classified under the superfamily Perdicoidea (True Partridges and Quails), both families are split into two subfamilies, for Odontophoridae (New World Partridges and Quails) the subfamilies are Dendrortyginae (New World Partridges) consisting of two genera Colinus (Bobwhites) and Dendrortyx (Wood Partridges) and Odontophorinae (New World Quails) with seven genera Philortyx (Banded Quail), Oreortyx (Mountain Quail), Callipepla (Crested Quails), Rhynchortyx (Tawny-Faced Quail), Cyrtonyx (Black-and-White-Faced Quails), Dactylortyx (Singing Quail), and Odontophorus (Wood Quails), while for Perdicidae (Old World Partridges and Quails) the subfamilies are Coturnicinae (Old World Quails) with five genera Ophrysia (Himalayan Quail), Perdicula (Bush Quails), Coturnix (Bronze Quails), Anurophasis (Snow Mountain Quail), and Synoicus (Brown Quail) and Perdicinae (Old World Partridges) with only four extant genera being Lerwa (Snow Partridge), Ptilopachus (East African Partridges), Alectoris (Stripe-Faced Partridges), and Perdix (Common Partridges), interestingly, the Galloidea superfamily contains the families Tetraonidae (Grouse, Turkeys, and Koklass Pheasants) and Gallidae (Chickens, Bamboo Partridges, Francolins, Spurfowl, Peafowl, Arguses, Peacock Pheasants, Crimson-Headed Partridge, Indochinese Partridges, Snowcocks, Dwarf Quails, Malagasy Partridge, and Desert Partridges) and is the sister group to the superfamily Perdicoidea, leaving the superfamily Phasianoidea, which now contains only the families Rollulidae (Jungle Partridges) and Phasianidae (Pheasants, Monals, Monal Partridges, and Tragopans) to be the most basal of the three superfamilies of the suborder Galli (Laurasian Gamebirds).

[@secondplace]

@@benb2289 dendrortyginae has exactly zero google results. If bobwhite quail were misclassified I would think PF/QF would be on the forefront of correcting that. We would here Bob StP talk about it all the time.

[@indyreno2933]

@secondplace, gamebirds (order Galliformes) are divided into two major clades, the first of these is the suborder Numides (Gondwanan Gamebirds), which includes the megapodes, curassows, guans, chachalacas, pollopavo, and guineafowl of the families Megapodiidae, Cracidae, and Numididae respectively, all of which originated from the southern hemisphere, the second clade is the suborder Galli (Laurasian Gamebirds), which includes all the other gamebirds, the Galli suborder is composed of three groups, which are the superfamilies Phasianoidea (Pheasants, Monals, Monal Partridges, Tragopans, and Jungle Partridges), which contains two families being Rollulidae (Jungle Partridges) and Phasianidae (Pheasants, Monals, Monal Partridges, and Tragopans), Perdicoidea (Partridges and Quails), which contains the families Odontophoridae (New World Partridges and Quails) and Perdicidae (Old World Partridges and Quails), and Galloidea (Chickens, Bamboo Partridges, Francolins, Spurfowl, Peafowl, Arguses, Peacock Pheasants, Crimson-Headed Partridge, Indochinese Forest Partridges, Snowcocks, Dwarf Quails, Malagasy Partridge, Desert Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Koklass Pheasants), which contains the families Tetraonidae (Grouse, Turkeys, and Koklass Pheasants) and Gallidae (Chickens, Bamboo Partridges, Francolins, Spurfowl, Peafowl, Arguses, Peacock Pheasants, Crimson-Headed Partridge, Indochinese Forest Partridges, Snowcocks, Dwarf Quails, Malagasy Partridge, and Desert Partridges).