Northern bobwhites hold a special place in Georgia’s outdoor culture and wildlife heritage. In fact, the Georgia General Assembly designated the bobwhite quail as the State Gamebird in 1970. Back in the quail boom years of the early 20th century, Georgia's landscape was a "sea" of usable habitat for quail due to extensive low intensity farming and forestry with little urban/suburban development. However, Georgia’s quail population has declined by more than 85% since the 1960s and consequently th