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Rich Higgins
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posted November 28, 2004 09:07 AM
I've asked this before and I hope someone has some insight to the question.
I read and heard in the past allusions to a special relationship between coyotes and quail and I still don't understand it. Once again this morning I observed what I consider strange behavior between predator and prey species.
I called in a large covey of quail to within 20 yards. They came to bird distress trills. As I was videoing them a coyote came in and walked to the edge of the covey. Quail and coyote ignored each other. That coyote scented me and left. 10 seconds later another coyote approached, walked through the covey, ignoring them and stood and watched me for a minute or so as the quail walked around it. This coyote moved downwind, scented me and left the way he came in. I stopped it three times with various sounds with quail almost at it's feet. As it left along a small game trail five or six quail ran along behind it. The last time it stopped to check me out the quail walked into the shrubs at it's feet and disappeared. I have a couple of other clips from the past showing similar behavior between the two species.
Anyone have any knowledge of this "special" relationship?
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Q-Wagoner
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posted November 28, 2004 10:08 AM
You had to have called in retarded coyotes Rich. Everyone knows that coyotes eat only game animals. That’s why we need to kill as many as we can. I it wasn’t for coyote hunters there would be no game left at all. LOL
Good hunting.
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Leonard
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posted November 28, 2004 03:43 PM
Personally, I have not heard of this? Have not witnessed it, either.
I keep thinking of some African footage I saw that showed a jackal charging into hundreds of doves at the edge of a pond. Several times, random snagging doves out of mid air.
We know they will take pheasants, probably other grouse(?) So I can't think of any reason why the coyote would ignore quail and the quail would have no fear of the coyote?
I believe you, though. Stranger things have happened.
Good hunting. LB
[ November 28, 2004, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Byron South
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posted November 28, 2004 04:07 PM
Rich,
A have heard several big bird hunters say that the more coyotes we have the more quail we have. They say that the coyotes keep the rabbit population down and that the rabbits compete with the quail. Whether this is true or not, don't know.
Did you get this on film Rich?
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Rich Higgins
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posted November 28, 2004 05:02 PM
Het Byron. yep, got it on video.
It was either Leydet or Cadieux that stated that coyotes enjoy a unique relationship with quail. Robb gave me a study that stated that large numbers of coyotes generally equal large numbers of quail because the coyotes suppress the populations of the meso predators-the foxes and cats that feed on quail. The groundkeeper at Sun City Country Club told me that the coyotes feed regularly on the doves on the course but leave the quail alone. Quien sabe?
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RanUtah
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posted November 28, 2004 05:10 PM
I have both of those books Rich, there are some interesting perspectives in both.
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