The last wild bird in KY and Ohio left several years ago. Few wild quail, no wild pheasants and more reasons from the DNR's than Carter liver pills. Face it, most DNR's consider deer herd management as job number one, two and three and turkey as a upland game bird of choice. I have not seen decent a small game bird management program in decades.
You need cover, food, predator control, reasonable game limits and a breeding stock to have birds. Five things and we lack only, ........ five of them. I think the last wild quail or pheasant around here should be stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Institute. I had a farm in KY that I tried to build quail population up on. Five years and 20K later I gave up when my last pointer [censored] died. I was grumpy for a long time then and almost over it.
