{"id":2141,"date":"2020-09-19T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/?page_id=2141"},"modified":"2021-09-03T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:21:40","slug":"northern-bobwhite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/sandhills\/northern-bobwhite\/","title":{"rendered":"northern bobwhite &#8211; sandhills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h5><a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/sandhills\/\">Longleaf Species &#8211; Sandhills<\/a><\/h5>\n<h2>Northern Bobwhite<\/h2>\n\t<h3>Northern Bobwhite<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Northern Bobwhite<\/strong> is a small bird, in the quail family, that typically lives on the ground in open forests. The longleaf pine forest is an important habitat for this species of bird because it has lots of open space for the northern bobwhite to run, nest, and feed, but it also has good places to hide. These birds have round bodies, small heads, and you can tell by their shape that they are adapted more to running than flying. They have a brown, black, tan, and white patterns across their feathers, which help them blend in or camouflage with their surroundings. Quail are popular birds to hunt.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/bobwhite2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"bobwhite2\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"300\" width=\"240\" title=\"bobwhite2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<iframe src='https:\/\/www.xeno-canto.org\/376209\/embed?simple=1' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' width='340' height='115'><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/bobwhite4.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA, photo courtesy of Shane Wellendorf\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"301\" width=\"500\" title=\"bobwhite4\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tSource: USDA, photo courtesy of Shane Wellendorf\n\t<h3>Habitat &amp; Range<\/h3>\n<p>Northern bobwhites can be found in much of North America, extending south into Central America. Across the southeastern United States, the longleaf pine ecosystem is an important habitat for this bird species. Northern bobwhite depend on open forest habitat with lots of bunch grasses and places to hide and eat on the ground. So the regular fires in the longleaf forest maintain an ideal habitat.<\/p>\n<h3>Food Web &amp; Energy Flow<\/h3>\n<p>The northern bobwhite eats primarily small ground insects and grubs, seeds, and small plants growing on the forest floor. In that sense, they are secondary consumers. They are also prey for larger birds of prey such as hawks and eagles, and mammals such as fox and skunks.<\/p>\n\t<h3>Relationship to Fire<\/h3>\n<p>The northern bobwhite depends on an open forest floor to run through, with lots of bunch grasses and other debris to hide in, and small plants and insects to eat. Regular, low-intensity fires create and maintain this ideal habitat for northern bobwhites in the longleaf pine forests.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/burning_longleaf.jpg\" alt=\"burning_longleaf\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"835\" width=\"1250\" title=\"burning_longleaf\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h3>Conservation Status<\/h3>\n<p>The northern bobwhite is &#8220;Apparently Secure&#8221; meaning there is pretty low risk that the species will go extinct. However, as you can see from the map, there are places across the range of the northern bobwhite where it is in more danger of going extinct locally.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/Northern-Bobwhite.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Bobwhite\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"546\" width=\"800\" title=\"Northern Bobwhite\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h3><b><strong>Human Impacts\/ Threats<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/bb-plugin\/cache\/development-square.jpg\" alt=\"development\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1600\" title=\"development\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t<h5>Land Use Conversion<\/h5>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>Longleaf forests and the habitat it supports is being cleared or <em>converted<\/em> to use the land for other uses like houses, roads, agriculture, and even to grow different types of trees to sell.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/bb-plugin\/cache\/smokeybear-square.jpg\" alt=\"smokeybear\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" title=\"smokeybear\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t<h5>Fire Suppression<\/h5>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>Many people think of fires in the forest as bad, so they work hard to prevent or <em>suppress<\/em> them. But longleaf forests NEED regular fire to support habitat for the species that live there!<\/p>\n\t<h4>Resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\t\t<h3>Hero Journal<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What does it look like?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What does it need to survive?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<strong>Try sketching the species you chose, using scientific drawing techniques.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/sandhills\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Habitat Type\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/longleaf\/explore\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChoose this Species\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/04\/needles-footer.png\" alt=\"needles-footer\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"339\" width=\"1920\" title=\"needles-footer\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longleaf Species &#8211; Sandhills Northern Bobwhite Northern Bobwhite The Northern Bobwhite is a small bird, in the quail family, that typically lives on the ground in open forests. The longleaf pine forest is an important habitat for this species of bird because it has lots of open space for the northern bobwhite to run, nest, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary cf-quest-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/explore\/longleaf-habitats\/sandhills\/northern-bobwhite\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":1884,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2141\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/longleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}