Wisconsin · UplandNorthern bobwhite quail

Wisconsin DNR's own "Regional Bobwhite Quail and Cottontail Rabbit Survey" is unusually strong sourcing for this species: DNR field personnel and volunteers have run roadside whistling-count surveys along fixed transects in the species' primary range every year since 1949 (biennially since 1991). The report's own Figure 1 map shades Wisconsin's primary bobwhite quail range as a contiguous block running from west-central Wisconsin (Dunn, Eau Claire, Trempealeau counties) south through the Driftless Area (La Crosse, Monroe, Vernon, Crawford, Richland, Grant, Iowa counties) and into south-central Wisconsin (Sauk, Columbia, Adams, Waushara, Marquette, Green Lake counties), roughly 15 counties per the report's own text. This matches independent sourcing (the Wisconsin All-Bird Conservation Plan's species account) describing the species as now concentrated in southwestern Wisconsin, with scattered populations in the central and southeastern regions. This range geography has been tracked continuously since 1949.