Indian Creek Fall/Winter 2026 Newsletter
The Fall/Winter edition of the Indian Creek newsletter is out and there are two articles bobwhite hunters will find interesting. What does a northern bobwhite do all day? In 2025, Quail Forever biologist Seth Sofferin and partners trapped and banded 45 birds on the Indian Creek Quail Focal Area and fitted 14 of them with rump-mounted GPS transmitters. The tags logged more than 5,000 locations, and early results show an average home range of about 124 acres. One hen even successfully incubated a clutch while wearing her tag. The project also turned up some hard-won lessons about battery life in dense Southeastern pine and understory.
Then there's the other side of good quail habitat: fire. In "Objective Based Burning," Sofferin reminds landowners that prescribed fire kills stuff, so the goal is to maximize the winners and minimize the losers. Before you strike a match, think through seasonality, weather, fuel moisture, ignition patterns, and the factor he says may matter most: time of day.
Read these pieces in full by clicking on the link below.
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