“Burning doesn’t work and we have no birds,” suggest sOme. Is it possible some don’t have birds because they don’t burn?
The secret sauce has long been discovered to having plenty of wild birds; it’s largely just a function of landowners implementing a variety of practices on a large enough scale that have been demonstrated repeatedly to work. All the research, particularly for east of the Mississippi, shows that quail prefer to nest in areas that were either burned or disturbed 2 years before.
Some even say that there used to be birds before management practices were implemented. May be some truth to that, especially if those practices include fire prevention, for as we know, wildfires used to be left to do their thing. Smokey Bear syndrome on federal, state, and most private lands has been a huge culprit.