Georgia · UplandNorthern bobwhite quail

WRD's own Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI), running since 1999, gives a direct, agency-sourced region: BQI initially "focused efforts in 15-upper coastal plain counties" and has since expanded restoration efforts to "all or parts of 68-Upper Coastal Plain counties," selected via a Tall Timbers/WRD collaborative landscape analysis. Within that broad Coastal Plain region, the crown-jewel private-land concentration is the Red Hills/Plantation Belt in the state's southwest corner -- the Albany-Thomasville corridor, home to more than 80 private quail plantations and described as having "the greatest percentage of bobwhite quail in the world" on its longleaf-pine habitat, anchored by the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center at Ichauway (Baker County). WRD's own public quota-hunt WMAs for quail (Silver Lake, Di-Lane, Chickasawhatchee) are scattered across the broader Upper Coastal Plain rather than clustered only in the southwest corner -- Di-Lane, for example, sits in the Augusta area, well east of the Red Hills.