{"id":649,"date":"2017-12-06T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saquailforever.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:25:47","slug":"masked-bobwhite-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/masked-bobwhite-hazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked Bobwhite Hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saquailforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zack May,his Small Munsterlander &#8220;Millie&#8221; and a masked Bob White<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jeff Hintz and I had the opportunity today to harass an endangered species. \u00a0It is something that you could get you in legal trouble but in this case it was at the invitation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0Wild Masked Bobwhite<\/span><\/strong> are feared to be extinct with the last ones seen in Sonora around 2000. \u00a0U.S. Fish and Wildlife is working to\u00a0reestablish a wild population of Masked Bobwhite Quail at Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Arizona. \u00a0Captive raised quail are placed in call back pens and released during the day and allowed to return to the pens later in the day. \u00a0During their time released the birds are harassed or hazed by people and dogs to instill a fear of predators. \u00a0Their time in the pens will end after a little over 3 weeks total when the birds are released and the pens removed. \u00a0Most of these birds slated for final release next week are 2-4 years old. \u00a0The last releases were attempted about 10 years ago and were not deemed successful.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another group of birds is planned to be released in early 2018. \u00a0I will share information on dates available for the next round as they are made available. \u00a0It \u00a0is a rare chance to get your dog on point with a Masked Bobwhite Quail. \u00a0Thanks to Rebecca Chester for setting up the opportunity. \u00a0Josh Smith from U.S. Fish and Wildlife will be at our Quail Festival this weekend and can give you more info.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Hintz and I had the opportunity today to harass an endangered species. \u00a0It is something that you could get you in legal trouble but in this case it was at the invitation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife. \u00a0Wild Masked Bobwhite are feared to be extinct with the last ones seen in Sonora around 2000.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[31,42,52,53,55],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-updates","tag-masked-bobwhite-quail","tag-quail-study","tag-southern-arizona-quail-forever","tag-southern-arizona-quail-hunting","tag-u-s-fish-and-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}