Can you imagine - since the bobwhite populations are so low -
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE IF THERE IS A HUNTING
SEASON!
   I also received a remarkably sincere note from Mark [one of our
gifted birders] who has many times reported on the apparent loss 
of this species in his weekly bird reports.  He suggested that I should 
address my concerns to Bob Long at DNR .
  I am a nobody!!  When the populations of this grand bird were 
droppiing why wasn't this subject addressed to DNR by our more 
learned colleagues???   
   Well, sleep soundly -- the calls of our Northern Bobwhite are but
echoing ghosts of a world that once raged havoc among the feather
dealers of the egret trade and caused the extinction of . . .
Lance