How Native Grass Diversity Creates Quail Nesting Habitat

A grazed or burned Diverse Native Grassland is ideal habitat for bobwhite quail and other ground nesting birds including turkey and pheasant. Colt Hamilton explains how native clump grasses provide nesting and feeding ground for small prey animals that protect them for predators and help to increase wild fowl populations.
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[@TaxEvasion777]

Cant wait to do this with my future quail

[@marvinbaier3627]

Thanks for the video! It makes more more sense to plant a huge diversity of native plants.

[@WoodpontBeagles]

That field as it is in this video is not enough cover for quail and/or rabbits to survive hawks and ground predators, in my opinion. Perhaps it could be in time, if areas of thickets and briars are allowed to grow. As it is now, a quail or rabbit would be an easy meal as soon as it moves from one of those scattered clumps.

[@midwesternoutdoorsandnatur8272]

Good stuff! Good stewardship. I am not a fan of fescue for wildlife. It gets too thick for poults to move through.

[@grant877]

Are you referring to tall fescue? I don’t believe cluster fescue is sod forming like the non native varieties.

[@elkmo41]

What state are you in?

[@HamiltonNativeOutpost]

We are located in beautiful southern Missouri!